Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Week 12 - Mashups

















Mashups creatively combine text and graphic - kind of digital scrapbooking. Mashup sites enable the import of graphics into templates which can overlay image with text so as to create interesting products like posters or badges. It is one expression of sharing information and repackaging it that is such a powerful aspect of the web. My mashup was created in Big huge labs on a poster template - it aims to encourage initiative and self esteem in the workplace.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Week 11 - Podcasts

Podcasts offer great convenience for the viewer or listener to access them at their leisure rather than at the programmed time of delivery. They also offer potential to be archived into a series for later reference. Meetings, seminars, talks, lectures etc. held in libraries may be podcast on the libraries website - enhancing the reach of the event far beyond its initial delivery. Often library communities are spead over great distances, so podcasts offer a very economical option for disseminating group information.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Week 10 - Questions and Answer boards

Have you ever considered that our library is part of the knowledge market? Absolutely. Libraries have lost their monopoly on information. Now Libraries are trying to join the new international democratic republic of information enabled by the net. Web forums - answer boards provide a space for the transfer of knowledge and for librarians to show their wares. Again Libraries and librarians are putting up their hand and saying 'hello' information professional here...but its gettin kind of desperate.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Week 8 - LibraryThang - it's a beautiful thang



Who needs librarians? the inner librarian has been unleashed. go forth and tag my children...

Week 7 - embedding video