social networks and ofcourse a big thankyou

Social networks are a great marketing tool. My space could be used to promote niche interests within the library such as a manga club, tweens read club, mystery book lovers, books made into movies... The possibilities are endless.

I have to congratulate the team at the State Library for giving me the opportunity to do this course. It has been a huge learning curve but a very interesting one. I will definitely be applying what I learned and I look forward to becomming more web 2.0 savvy as I explore more.

Cheers

online applications and tools

Google Docs - what a convenient way to to work on a document when you want the input from many people. We do have catalogue training sessions for the public. Creating a training manual on Google Docs would enable all the trainers to have a say in what goes into the manual without being innudated with emails. Genre lists could also be done with great ease.

Mashups

Mashups are good fun. It would be a raving succes in the childrens section with jigsaws and games. We could also feature librarian of the week funstuff. It would be great for local studies with a virtual tour of all the parks and historical buildings in the shire. For Library Lovers day our local studies librarian created a flyer with a list of all places romantic in the shire. A mashup for that would be great.

Podcasts and audio

Podcasting will be great for author talks. Recently we had a fully booked David Malouf author talk here at the library. There were a few who missed out. However with podcasting those who missed out would still have been able to listen to David Malouf. Podcasting can also be effectively used for library tours. Podcasts on how to use our online resources could also work well.

Answer boards and social searching

It is great to get feedback on the collection and slamming the answer boards may just achieve that. The collection is after all for our clients! Slamming the boards on activities like the @ your library campaign will not only give us immediate feedback but will also help us in planning future events. Topics that might work well for answer boards could be HSC topics and ofcourse one on childrens educational sites would be interesting.

Library Thing

Would be great for book clubs!

del.icio.us fantastic tool

This is indeed a fantastic toool for reference enquiries. This tool makes for time efficiency when it comes to doing a reference enquiry especially for school projects. If staff have already gone through the links to a particular topic, it becomes really easy for the next staff member with the same enquiry. del.icio.us is the way to go! Our library already has a del.icio.us account.