Investigative Exercise 3. Photo sharing and Flickr

Alachua County Library

 Link to image: Alachua County Library

The Alachua County Library remains firmly attached to its' heritage as evidenced by this spectacular wooden ceiling, a part of the original Twentieth Century Club which became  Gainesville's first subscription library in 1905.

Despite this, the library is very proud of their commitment to providing the most up to date resources available for their patrons. With the support of ten branch libraries servicing more than 225,000 residents throughout Alachua County, Florida, they are able to provide a huge catalogue of digital works, free eBooks, and a comprehensive display of popular new release books as shown below

Link to image 2: Alachua County Library

Investigative Exercise 2. Blogs

Investigative Exercise 2.  Blogs 

These were three very interesting blogs.

The "Librarian in Black" was extremely interesting with fascinating, even ground-breaking stories about privacy issues revolving around Adobe eBooks, and a litany of "sad but true" tales of sexual harassment within the workplace, which were eye-popping to say the very least!!

However, I chose the "eRecords Project" blog from the SLNSW, predominantly because of the post regarding Pinterest, which I only recently found out about myself! It was inspiring, if a little mind boggling to read of all the different ways the working group found to fully utilise this medium.

There were many obvious examples for its' use, but the “reading list” of books set, published or written in NSW, and an area for research guides and resources for HSC students and teachers were novel and valuable ideas I thought. Despite the fact that it wasn't something I would have thought of immediately, the fact that the most popular board continues to be HSC resources, targeting high school students and their teachers, shows the benefits Pinterest has brought to all users of this exciting medium!

I hadn't realised that Pinterest had any issues regarding gender specificity either!

Investigative Exercise 1. Library 2.0

Facebook

      

Investigative Exercise 1.  Library 2.0

Pinterest

Library 2.0 is a label transposed from the term Web 2.0, which was coined to usher in the new age for computers, a digital age, where computers would be used not simply to provide information, but as a means for people to collaborate and share information among the broader communities of computer users. Similarly, Library 2.0 is focused upon the purposeful exchange of information between web-based groups of users, utilizing social media tools such as: 

Twitter

 These are three of the most commonly used social media tools in libraries, along with blogs and wikis. Library 2.0 is recognition of the need for libraries to adopt a strategy for constant change, whilst promoting a participatory role for library users. It fosters an increased flow of information from the user back to the library and encourages feedback and participation.

Links:

Wikipedia

liswiki

Inmagic Social Library

Library 2.0

Stones are legends...

I saw some archive footage of the Rolling Stones free concert in Hyde Park.
July 5th, 1969.
They performed before hundreds of thousands of people, just a few days after Brian Jones death.
Jagger quoted some poetry in his honour, was it Shelley????
Very moving.
Nowadays, most bands would cancel under similar circumstances, but not the Stones, and not in 1969.
If only I'd been there..........
If anyone was there let me know how you felt and how it was to witness that emotion at that time.
The music was still tight and true, despite their bereavement and a new band member.
The consummate professionals and one of the best bands of the modern era.

Love ya..............................

Let's love each other.

Why, with so much natural beauty in the world,




    is man so intent on creating ugliness?