#17 PBWiki

I woz here.

And it only screamed 'go away' at me once, causing amused laughter to erupt from the other room, while I got a serious fright!

#16 Wiki, wiki, wacko

The possibilities are endless really ... but for starters, how about a book review wiki for the State Library's summer reading guide? And maybe the CHRLC ideas committee could be wiki based and then we could all follow along and contribute?

The St. Jose County wiki based subject guides are also food for thought. And yes, it does take a change in mindset to open up your precious prose to the 'improvements' of others.

I quite liked the irony of Library Success: a best practise wiki being log-in only editing because of repeated vandalism. On the one hand you have the ideal, and on the other, the reality.

#15 Library 2.0, Web 2.0

These articles were excellent reading and great food for thought. The ideas that stood out most to me were, in no particular order:

* John Riemer advocating federated searching
* Michael Stephens iceberg warning regarding 'just in case' collections
* John Riemer (again) on using tagging in our catalogues and collaborative metadata along the lines of collaborative cataloguing
* Wendy Schultz' evocative descriptions of Library 3.0 and Library 4.0. My head hurts!

Of all of these, the idea that I'd like to explore further and that I think is within our reach, is reorganising the physical space in our libraries to make more room for people to come, use our resources comfortably and to just be. And looking seriously at our physical collections is definitely a way to do this, that is very do-able.

#14 Technorati

Before searching around this site tonight, I really had no idea what Technorati did or what it was for. I followed the activity suggestions and searched learning 2.0 in the directory and in the tags and the results were quite different ... but neither very satisfying. The tag search returned a lot of very general material, so I can see the importance of considering the tags I decide to use rather than shooting from the hip. The advanced search returned the best results, a series of new blogs I'd not come across yet but which I'm looking forward to returning to. I liked Technorati and I'll return but I'm not quite ready to let the spiders loose yet.

And as an aside, I saw the VALA conference programme via Technorati and doesn't it look fabbo. Helene Blowers is keynote speaker and I expect there will be some good blogs to read in February, when the conference is on in Melbourne.

#13 Del.icio.us

Interesting. Just getting an idea of the various ways people choose to tag compared with the structured and controlled 'libary' way of classification is an eye opener. I can see the advantage too, of overcoming the frustration of not having 'favourites' available at work or alternatively, at home, whichever the case may be. I also found food for thought in some of the sites I found that discussed using this on reference desks and also on having tags sitting alongside subject headings in our library catalogues.

#12 Rollyo

I've been looking at Rollyo tonight and I think for the time being I might move along ... and come back to this at a later stage. I can see an application for it in the various websites I like to keep track of.

#11 Library Thing

I really enjoyed looking around Library Thing ... it's interesting to see how many others have chosen the same titles. I must say however, that I struggled to think of the titles I'd list. There was much peering over my shoulder at the bookshelf behind me for inspiration. In the end, I've gone with some old favourites and some recent reads ... Unfortunately, not all of my choices had covers available. I'm not sure that the coverage for Australian literature is very good.

I've finally got the images to appear on the blog. I didn't understand the 'adding an HTML' element bit. Thank you Rosemary for your help!