Thursday, 27 March 2008

Advanced Blogging?

From this morning's presentations I was left with the impression that the Library Weblog (LibLog?) would be by far the most immediately useful thing to implement in OULS - news page announcements distributed quickly, with old messages stored for retrieval at later dates, would be great - particularly as the SSL staff mailing list is so heavily used. Daily announcements to staff could also be posted in one place with an internal weblog avoiding over-dependence on mailing lists.

Out of the examples given on the day - annoyed librarian seems worth a look -

http://annoyedlibrarian.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Ignorance>Knowledge

I've been a little left behind by the Web 2.0 Craze. I have a Facebook Page but I'm far from a heavy user and I want to use this day to develop a decent working grasp of a range of tools which are becoming more and more common in contemporary libraries. I've been playing catch-up for too long and I want to see what this technology genuinely has to offer....