Flickr- one more for your viewing

Su Blackwell is another artist whose work I really appreciate. This one is titled "While you were sleeping". This installation of paper is so delicately beautiful that it feels like the artist has physically been able to release life into art. If you are interested please visit her website at http://www.sublackwell.co.uk/

Flickr - just imagine

Hi Everybody,
I'm back after a bit of break.

Flickr - what an amazing tool that can be used by us librarians to promote ourselves as the happening hub of the community. It is extremely motivating as well as very humbling to see what other libraries are doing. I look at Flickr as a sharing of ideas/storytelling through images. I have certainly spent a lot of time browsing the Flickr site, especially the ones that focus on book sculpture.

"Good as Gold" named after Joseph Heller's novel is a 500 pound sculpture by artist Donald Lipski. It is located at the Kansas City Public Library. This amazing sculpture is a continuous loop of books resting on steel feet with holes drilled into the books and strung onto the steel bar. Just imagine the possiblities of creative explosion with books that have been weeded from the collection. Participation could be sought from local artists, students... and all their creation could be publicised through the library/Flickr. Win Win situation for all!!!

Getting started

I got so carried away with blogs that it looks like I'm an addicted blog surfer. There are so many bloggers out there blogging about special interests as well as the usual mundane stuff. This makes me wonder as to whether some have been issued the 40 hour day card! Just kidding! I'm sure to be one of them as I progress through this training.

Anyway it is great to finally get started on the WEB 2.0 training and more importantly to see how best to use it both personally and professionally. I think that the dynamic two way interaction which the blog lends itself to is ideal to bring the community together either on a special, local or on a global level.

As we already have a number of special interest groups within the library, it would be best to start with them and then move outwards. These groups include those who come for author events, book clubs, summer reading club, family history and of course the very popular volunteers of the library. Also would it not be great to set up a blog for the home library borrowers! It might also be good to set up a blog in languages other than English which are spoken by a lot of people in the community. What a perfect way to better promote our services to a select interested target audience.

Well I am going to say bye for now but watch out, it is time for the web 2.0 super librarian to take over. Also cheers to all those out there doing the web 2.0 training! Hope you enjoy Elaine at her best!