Library 2.0

Inspiring glimpses into the future of the Library.

Library 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...steps along the way to the complete learning/information/knowledge experience. (Bold formatting doesn't seem to work)

I like the description of the actual library space as "emotional/irrational/theatrical/participatory" (TBC) - look at how users access, consume and create content

Moving from VR - vitual reality, to AR - augmented reality - the services of Library projected onto/into immediate surrounds - which means what exactly - a sci-fi dream with voice-controlled holograms floating in space?

'The Long Tail' - Amazon employee description: "We sold more books today that didn't sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday."

ie unusual and one-off items may exceed in demand the well-worn and 'popular' - message for libraries is to cater to the unusual, extreme, hard-to-get, just as much as the common/popular.

Library's 'incarnations' - storage, data retrieval, commentary and annotation.

New perspectives: the collection will be infinite - all there online
refinement of search engines, simplification of software, and user-ed, to lead users directly to the information they want
Library services to be web-based

Here is the code to link to Technorati

Add to Technorati Favorites

del.icio.us

I've started to explore this site and have my own account: http://del.icio.us/frostypines

The big selling point is that you can carry your tagged sites around with you but I don't see how this is done unless you instal the delicious buttons on every computer you use. So how is it anything more than a Favourites that is stored on a website rather than your browser?

I have yet to explore other features like other users' Tags.

Tanya explains: You can view your delicious marked sites without having the buttons installed on your computer, you just go to the web address for your delicious site. Here is an example http://del.icio.us/bremertafe
I hope this helps.

Thanks again T!

Rollyo

The concept is interesting - and potentially timesaving. It's a bit laborious trawling through the Net to find sites to put into Rollyo, but once the work is done... I don't already have 'my own favourite sites' to insert.

http://rollyo.com/index.html then of course P: Digby U: maccan

My Rollyo is called 'Trellis Arbour' and it's a poetry archive - I searched for a poet by name and voila!

Not that again!

It's just happened again! - I left Librarything open and opened the Blogger dashboard and the LT website closed down. Whenever I open Blogger it closes down other websites I've got open!

Robyn emailed me some instructions to circumvent this - right click on the link and then click on 'open in a new window' - I'm afraid I don't know what she means - right click on what link?

LibraryThing

My Goodness this Librarything thing is fun! - I could make lists until the cows come home as it is.

My LT page: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Digby1

It says in the TQL Learning page "it also connects you to other people who have similar libraries and reading tastes." - really? How? I couldn't see anything on the LT page to indicate how to do that either.

Lindsey from librarything.com emailed me some instructions re above: go to my Profile page & click on 'Members with Digby1's books' (on the left) - but the site says 'this feature switched off 13/10'

She also said to try going to a favourite author's Author Pages and see who else has favourited that author - but how do I go to the Author Pages?



Also - how do you add tags to your book selections? - Do they have to be added before you search for the book?

At one point I followed a link saying something like ' connect this to your Blog' then it gave me some HTML code to paste into my Blog which I tried to do by pasting the code into the Source code behind this Blog - but nothing happened.

Following Lorraine's tips I've gone via 'LT Search' to 'instal widget' then copied the widget HTML and pasted it directly into this post below (not into my HTML as the site instructed)

but why isn't it here now that I've come back to edit the post?

Robyn's help email ran as follows: "from within my LT page I clicked on the Tools tab, then on "make a standard blog widget" then I copied the HTML code from the right window to a new post on my blog making sure I was in edit HTML mode not in Compose mode, and then publish post" --- well I went to my LT page clicked on Tools and found no link to blog widgets, only 'mail & news', 'Pop-up blocker etc -- I also wonder what she meant by 'right window' -- no idea what the bit about modes was all about.

I've added the LT widget but when I selected it it suddenly became 'unselected' so I selected it again only to find I'd pasted it into this blog twice. When I came back to edit the post to delete the duplicated LT widget, it's not even visible - only when I view the post!

Image Generators

This site has tons of stuff - http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/ not all of it useful, many of the generators are time-wasters and others appear to be fronts for 'sign up to our site' ads. Had fun with the Dylan message generator. I went through the procedure to copy the Dylan message into my blog which involved copying the background code and inserting it into the Blog's Source - but that hasn't worked out. Any Dylan messages sent to DETA emails are blocked as well.

Why?

Why is it that when I open a second Internet site sometimes the first one closes? Why can't I keep multiple sites open at the samr time? I can't keep Bloglines open while I search for feeds, which means I have to sign in over @ over, which wastes my time!

RSS Feeds are rather cool

One of the tasks given was to subscribe to some feeds from a list including 'Readers Club new review feeds'. I tried going to the site and then clicking on 'Sub with Bloglines' in My Favourites only to be told ' No feeds were found'. Then I tried copying the URL into 'Subscribe to URL' in Bloglines - same message.

I'm spending a lot of time looking...

9/10 - Ok getting the hang of adding feeds - but how is all this different to my favourites?

Tanya says: If you bookmark a site in your favourites you would have to go in and manually check to see if anything was new or changed. With RSS feeds you only have to go to one place to receive all the new information from the sites you are interested in.

Ok now I get it the numbers in brackets after the Feed title are the unread updates - cool! Thanks Tanya.

Gizmo

I've created the Gizmo Lets view it again (I've just been through all this and the Gizmoz link went into Lorraine's Blog Instead!)

http://www.gizmoz.com//video/2702335_dr_spankenflog

Adding this picture to the Trading Card...

Easy as falling off a Blog

LEARNING IS EASY because the mind is always receptive to new experience. When the gate is opened the little lamb will jump for joy.

The easiest of the 71/2 habits for me is Play. My inner curiousity is in direct proportion to my inner curiousness. That may be irrelevant. Or not, if my aim is to describe my personal traits in order to contact like-minded souls through Chats and the like.

The hardest habit would probably be 'seeing problems as challenges'. When I find a problem in my path - usually technological - I get annoyed that someone else hasn't fixed it. It's always someone else's fault, never mine of course, how could it be? An example: at the beginning of this learning venture I was instructed to listen to a podcast by clicking on an icon. The thing played for a few words and then went silent for a number of seconds, and continuing on in the same way. How annoying is that? Unlistenable. Not my fault I'm sure. Couldn't they even get that right? - - That's how I react - it's hard to see these kinds of design faults as challenges.

Take a deep breath...

Blogalong

My aim is to learn to use social networking technologies that will enable me to assist library users.

How do we make contact and interact with others who are on similar or related paths of learning? I have heard of Forums, Blogs, Chats, Discussion groups, and online social networks, and I am hoping to learn more about their use.