Social Networking

Best invention ever. I have been using Facebook for the past 6mths trying to find old school buddies for our 20 year reunion and have found quite a few who I now keep in contact with. In the library this would be handy as a promotional tool to display our library services and upcoming events or to catch up and chat with other librarians about everyday issues we come across working in libraries. Bring on modern technology.

Google Docs

Fantastic idea. I think this is great for when your working together with an ongoing document you can all have input without having to be together on the same computer. Would be handy for policy and procedure writing or in my case where I'm in a one staff library with part timers to work on documents as a team. This is disappointing I only have 1 week to go. I'm loving all these great ideas. I hope I remember how to use them when I have finished Learning 2.0.

Uses for Mashups

After exploring the different types of mashups I found 3 that would be useful in my library. Firstly the calendar could be used to promote library events using photos from the library, also google maps to display all of UMRL libraries for all to see on a map and finally voice thread would be good to use for a display with photos in the library for all users to view while in the library focusing on a theme eg. history of library or town. Very handy.

Mashups

These would be great to use for Promotional tools in your library, for posters, children's activities etc. It was a long process to achieve this task because I didn't install many pictues to flickr so I had to do that first.

Natinal Talk like a Pirate Day 19/08/07

Flickr Toys Photo Browser

Tumbarumba Library

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This is our very unique library which used to be a church at Laurel Hill between Tumbarumba and Batlow. It was relocated to Tumbarumba and we celebrated it's 21st birthday late last year.

Podcasts

I feel that podcasts would be very useful for libraries in isolated areas like myself where it can be difficult to attend courses and seminars and keep up to date with all the changes or just keep up with other librarians. Bring down the barriers of isolation.