'Slamming the boards'

Must say - I think it sounds a bit like wrestling. Although I'm not saying that what these Librarians are doing is a bad thing, I don't know if I think that it should be part of work. I think most questions on the boards are asking for opinions. I'd like to believe that if someone has a reference inquiry, they would seek help from a librarian.

However I am amazed at the number of health related questions - hope these people go to doctors as well as seeking public opinion.

I have had some thought about our 'Ask a Librarian' service on the website. Perhaps rather then having forms to fill out it should be in an answerboard format. I think it might apeal to more people.

Discover #2: week 8 after thought

Point 4 "try searching for nswpln2008..." Is this something left over from the public Libraries course - our images are tagged slnsw2008.

Time management

I think the big challenge, now that I can do all these newly learned things, is working out what I need, rather then want to keep track off. Since setting up the Google reader I have spent a lot of time scanning and reading it - Today I have weeded it down to the essential items, with the next step being to set up some things as bookmarks instead. Hopefully this will free up more of my time to actually continue the course.

Computing mysteries

It's always a source of constant amazement to me how things can work one day, and then suddenly for no reason, not on another. Yesterday I added my del.icio.us tags to the blog. They were there, I saw them, even used them. Today they are not there.

Also all of a sudden almost all my posts are visible., not just those for this month - total mystery. Och, well no time to dwell, it might work tomorrow for no apparent reason.

Soldier on

School holls are over and I'm back. At last, I have moved past my del.icio.us blockage. Now, I have finally worked it inside out and I can move on. I just need a bit of time to "tidy up". I can see that it is definitelly something I will be using. I use a number of computers and its very frustrating to keep setting up bookmarks on each one. Of course the one I want is always on the computer I'm not using... Well, no more

End Of Year Madness

It has been a bit crazy here - no time to do any blogging. The little time I have I have been spending checking my rss feeds - now that I'm subscribed to them

Video on line

There are so many videos out there, a lot with very dubious content.

What if we set up a bank of institutional knowledge videos. Some things I know about the library and the collection that are not recorded anywhere videos that we could all refer to.

All we need is time....