Thursday, June 14, 2012
Blog Exercise 15– commenting on other blogs
I've commented on Wenjing's and Dantheman's blogs. For Wenjing's I wrote "I like the mouse, its funny." For Dantheman's I wrote "Hi there, I' got to say that your background blew me away, its stunning."
Blog Exercise 13– changing the arrangement of your blog
I have changed the labels around with the contributors due to their respective lengths.
Blog Exercise 12– changing the colour of your blog
I've chaged the title of my blog to dark brown colour, Impact font and size 70. I've also changed the links to dark brown and made them red when they have been visited.
Investigative Exercise 11 Recommendations
For recommendations, the most obvious one I think would be for the library to have its own website. From here it could have its own RSS feed and perhaps other Web 2.0 facilities of its own such as a Facebook page or a Twitter page. This would be primarily for self-marketing. It also encourages interest in the library and its collections and services through the stimulus people get through communicating with eachother and being a part of something. Examples of this are the Ultimo TAFE Library blog at http://sydneyinstituteonline.net/uclibrary/ and the New York Public Library blog at http://www.nypl.org/blog.
Perhaps RSS feeds for Children’s, Teenage/Youth, Adult Fiction and Information/Reference would be in order so that reading and borrowing in these areas is encouraged. Also it would be good to have the blog page, Twitter page, etc interlinked in order to ease access to these tools and thus encourage their use; the Ultimo TAFE Library blog is an example of this.
Perhaps RSS feeds for Children’s, Teenage/Youth, Adult Fiction and Information/Reference would be in order so that reading and borrowing in these areas is encouraged. Also it would be good to have the blog page, Twitter page, etc interlinked in order to ease access to these tools and thus encourage their use; the Ultimo TAFE Library blog is an example of this.
Investigative Exercise 10 Evaluation
The City of Sydney Council Sydney Library comes under this site) makes fairly extensive use of Web 2.0 technologies, yet it is not directly aimed at the groupings mentioned for the exercise. On the bottom of every page in the site is a column called "Follow Us" under which there is listed: Email Newsletters, RSS Feeds, Videos & Podcasts, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Pinterest and Flickr. These though have little do with library services and are primarily about events held in the city (e.g. Chinese New Year) or initiatives being pushed bu the council (e.g. pedestrianisation of George St). Interestingly although not really related, an RSS feed has been set up for job vacancies.
The library does have a service on its online catalogue where members can write their own reviews for the items therein. Its quite easy to do this as the option is available next to "More detail" and "Reserve" for every item in the catalogue. From here you need your membership number and library pin, and then you are ready to go. The library has two newsletters, one for adults and one for kids (or their parents), though I don't think this is Web 2.0.
The only reason I can imagine for the lack of Web 2.0 technology from the library itself could possibly be due to it not having its own website. But being part of the City of Sydney council website whose focus is on more over-reaching issues at the moment.
The library does have a service on its online catalogue where members can write their own reviews for the items therein. Its quite easy to do this as the option is available next to "More detail" and "Reserve" for every item in the catalogue. From here you need your membership number and library pin, and then you are ready to go. The library has two newsletters, one for adults and one for kids (or their parents), though I don't think this is Web 2.0.
The only reason I can imagine for the lack of Web 2.0 technology from the library itself could possibly be due to it not having its own website. But being part of the City of Sydney council website whose focus is on more over-reaching issues at the moment.
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