Wikis

The video on wikis was a real eye-opener for me. I found the use of a wiki to plan a trip fascinating and I can see how useful this could be - it cuts out so much time with emails going backwards and forwards. I have used Wikipedia for quite sometime and find it very good. While I generally find it reliable I did get a start one time when it gave a date for Schapelle Corby's death!. That was very quickly removed.

As there are 3 libraries in our library service I could see a wiki being very useful for organising activities and perhaps running a calendar so everyone can see it regardless of their location. It could also be useful for planning a staff luncheon and working out who is bringing what.
I loved the readers advisory applications and could spend hours looking at these sites and making a big list of books I would like to read.

RSS

Well I have struggled with this and not sure whether I will use it much. Eventually managed to add some feeds to my bloglines account. Got a bit frustrated finding blogs/rss that I was interested in and it took a while to work out how to add them to my account. I found the Google blog search a useful tool. The ones I added included Bronwyn's library blog - found a very interesting entry there about downloading music to MP3 players. Also added the Powerhouse Museum photo of the day, ABC news - health and Christchurch libraries.

Harry Bailey Memorial Library Jan 1992

Harry Bailey Memorial Library Jan 1992 - medium
Originally uploaded by coffsharbourlibrary

This is an interesting photo for me as I had not known where the previous library was. I am new to the Coffs Harbour area and am only familiar with the existing library.