PBWiki

Another interesting one. So much easier than when I had to create a webpage at Uni in HTML. It looks good. So quick and easy to use, anyone could make one.

Wikis

These look very interesting. The use for Libraries is vast as can be seen in some of the readings provided. My first thought though was to use it as a book club central, where everybody in the bookclub could comment or add information regarding the current book that they were reading.

Library 2.0

From the reading list we were given:

Away from Icebergs
Into a new world of librarianship
To more powerful ways to cooperate
To better bibliographic services
To a temporary place in time

I have decided to comment on the first one.

I find that a lot of patrons are already expecting to find everything online. But you do need to balance this with the student who finds the online environment hard to handle and would prefer to find the information in a traditional manner. Eventually everything (well almost) will be in the online environment and we do have to prepare for the future if we want Libraries to still be relevant to our clients. It is a juggling act at present, but the scales are very quickly tipping in favour of the online environment.

Technorati

This is a really interesting site. I tried finding my own blog and it was there! Another way of searching for information.
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del.icio.us

I have been using this site for a while now and find it very useful. My delicious site is http://del.icio.us/TanyaLM. We have a Bremer Library site that is also useful and contains a lot of useful links that everyone may need to use (this was created by the same person who created the Horticulture delicious site mention in the tutorial).

Rollyo

Rollyo allows you to create your own search engine design to search specific resources that you have selected. I have created a Searchroll for the main suppliers I use when searching for resources for Applied Technology. You can search this by using the tool below.

Select...Suppliers ATSearch The Web

LibraryThing

This site is great. I could catalogue my entire collection of books on here. I can also see others with similar tastes and see what they have read. The beginnings of my Library are at:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/TanyaMohr