# 17 Playing around with PBWiki

Seems to be a very easy website to use and you do feel as though you are 'talking to' other people.

# 16 So what's in a wiki

Love the community feel of these wikis, although I think one of the main problems would be accuracy of informnation, and you would need to accept people changing your entries whenever they wanted to!
I think they would be excellent for library web pages where libaray patrons could be invited to add their comments on all sorts of things eg. libaray actitvities they ahve been to, local facilities they have used that might be of interest ot others etc.
They would also be great for library catalogues where users could add reviews of the books listed, suggestions for 'tags' or other added search terms etc.

# 15 On library 2.0 & web 2.0

All the visions for the future of Information provision et. are quite exciting, but I have to say to me in many ways quite overwhelming! The librarian in 'into a new world of librarianship' obviously does none of the traditional library tasks - there simply wouldn't be time!
(Also a plea for more simple, meaningful terminology - alot of the concepts are really not difficult but they are hidden by 'trendy' terminology.)

I prefer the view in "To a temporary place in time' where at least there seems to be a feeling that a library should still be a pleasant PHYSICAL place to go, not just a virtual space (and I like the sound of the comfortable chairs and brandy - and maybe even some books!)

Having had a whinge though I think there are lots of avenues for new ideas, and particularly in my area of cataloguing. The traditional methods and techniques of cataloguing should not be thrown away, but they could well be enhanced with the use of metadata, public tagging etc., which might make the catalogue a lot more user friendly.

# 14 Technorati

My keyword search in blog posts today came up with 1821 results, but even though I did a phrase search the results were often for the separate words. Much better when refined under "Blogs about" and I put libraries (25 posts).
Searching in tags gave 1514 articles but again not necessarily as the phrase. These were more actual articles, presumably tagged by the 'poster'
Blog directory gave 827 results, but still contained a lot of seemingly 'off the topic' results (eg. elearning, web 2.0).

#13. Tagging, folksonomies etc.

Have had a look around del.icio.us. Aileen says the main interest here is the grouping and tagging of your "favourites" but I didn't seem to come across a lot on that topic, rather more on the tagging etc.

The concept of public tagging (metadata?) is interesting to a cataloguer but I feel lack of any structure can have drawbacks in lack of consistency in headings used. Good for browsing etc. but for serious searching I think there also needs to be some sort of authority structure.
Maybe public library catalogues could eventually allow for the users to add their own tags to the catalogue record?

#12 Rollyo

Have created a search roll for travel. Hopefully will add more later.
Handy to use for sites you use often and trust.

A library application: On our website we have lists of online databases in categories eg. health. There are several databases under each category and they could be linked with search rolls through 'rollyo' so only one search is needed not several.

#11 Library thing

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rsmith1

#10 Image generators

Thinking skeleton,
originally uploaded by robynsmith23.

Surprisingly easy now I realise I can save pictures to Flickr before uploading to my blog!

#7 Reflections on technology

The technology we have been learning about in this programme opens up all sorts of possibilities for individual people! I look forward to spending more time exploring.

#6 Flickr fun

Billboard,
originally uploaded by robynsmith23.

Had problems with this as Flickr account not fully active.
Thanks to Aileen ,now OK!

#10
Robyn 罗宾 - prononciation (PinYin) : luō bīn

I rather like my Chinese name, from the Chinese name generator.

Have found public URL for blogsite, but now what do I do?

#8

Have found this very time-consuming but I can see it could be very useful in gathering items of interest and news. Need much more time to investigate properly but I have to move on!

Venice

Venice,
originally uploaded by evgeniy_ramich.