Web 2.0 and Suffolk Wave

Suffolk Wave is fantastic! I have used it a number of times and often recommend it for my patrons! Being an audiobook fan, it is easy to find titles that I am interested in listening to. A recent title I downloaded and listened to is Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky. It is a fascinating book, and the audio version is great.

thoughts on Web 2.0

I loved learning all the different web 2.0 technologies! Some I was very familiar with and some were new, but it was a great learning expereince. I enjoyed the systematic way of trying each activity and becoming familiar with it. I think it was a great thing for the library to encourage all the staff to learn and push our comfort zones out a bit. I think it will make the library as a whole more receptive to new ideas and changes in the technology landscape.

Thanks for the opportunity for learning all these new things and I hope to use more of them on a regular basis.

Web 2.0 and Google docs

Google docs is very useful, and I have used it in the past for a number of applications. One of the applications is when I am working on a document for my department head (in a different building)and she is able to insert any changes that may be required.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pXBDgQinNpMfNcLNjKlmfHA&hl=en

Web 2.0 and Craigs list

I have looked at Craigs list in the past for some items and I found it to be useful...the following listing though shows that you can find anything even books!

http://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/bks/1227385010.html

Web 2.0 and Wiki

The number of wikis is mind-boggling...as with the other activities it is an overwhelming amount of information. Using my topic of digital photographry though I was able to focus and find valid information that was specific to my interests. Interestingly the pages on Wikipedia have statements: This article needs additional citations for verification. What this actually means to me is that people interested in this topic, have not submitted published third party material, but the information is good enough for me.

I did a web search and came across this wiki for photographyhttp://www.techniphoto.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page , it has been just started so it seems fairly limited.

I think that staff and patrons would benefit from a library wiki. Applications could include local community information, library information, and program information.

Web 2.0 continued learning!

I used technoratie to look for new feeds and sure enough I found the following feed for a digital photography school feed...looks like it will be useful to me and I have subscribed to the feed and I hope to learn some more about my camera and digital photography in general!

http://digital-photography-school.com/

Web 2.0 catalog feeds

I found the feeds on the catalog to be hard to find and confusing to use...when I finally found the page and clicked on the feed links I was disappointed to get a page of html code... see the following:

http://www.communitylibrary.orgMastics-Moriches-Shirley Community LibraryTue, 16 Jun 2009 09:33:33 -0400en-UShttp://alpha2.suffolk.lib.ny.us/search~S37/,?b4100847xOnce you tell someone certain things--say, you got mailed a human head in a box--they tend to think you're crazy. Anita Blake's reputation has taken some hits. Not on the work front, where she has the highest kill count of all the legal vampire executioners in the country, but on the personal front. No one seems to trust a woman who sleeps with the monsters. Still, when a vampire serial killer sends her a head from Las Vegas, Anita has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're still dealing with.http://alpha2.suffolk.lib.ny.us/search~S37/,?b4117915xKurt Austin puts the NUMA team on a case involving a hideous series of medical experiments, an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic.http://alpha2.suffolk.lib.ny.us/search~S37/,?b4111002xNewspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Ja

This is not an easy way to read the information and I dont think the patrons will be excited to come back.

If the links work then patrons (myself included) will be excited to subscribe to the feeds.