Post script

I've just realised that I haven't been using tags for my posts - not even for my post on tagging! So I've just tagged my previous post on online applications and am now tagging this one on tagging. A bit of a navel gazing exercise at this point, I guess.

Online applications

I've managed to creat a mini-slideshow on Google Docs.
I've used zoho before and foudn it very useful, and have suggested it to clients who come in asking if the Library has Word on its computers.

Answer boards and mashups

Desperately trying to finish the course before the end of this week! Racing the clock and trying to create a mashup is just toooo much for me today. But I've checked out the Answer Board Librarians which is great. Anything to get people aware of librarians' skills. If people won't come to the library I guess the library has to go to them.
I'm going to have to try a mashup at some other time. I can see their usefulness for the library - for websites, learning tools, exhibitions, calendars of events, maps and photos with commentary, learning guides etc.

Tagging

I love Library Thing. What a great idea! I will never experience that bewildering feeling of not knowing what to read next. Great of reading groups in libraries.
Delicious was a bit confusing. I'll have to spend some more time on it.
For libraries - a good idea for internet links in different subject areas, and inviting users to put in their tags.
I think the cloud tag is a brilliant idea and quite meaningful.

Videos

I've been trying to view some videos but something is wrong - they keep stopping and starting all the time. So I'll have to get the Helpdesk people to look at my PC. Also, I have to borrow a headset from my pod partner - fortunately she's happy to lendt them to me whenver I need them. Everyone doing the course will have to have access to a headset. (Also needed for viewing/listening to Lee Lefever's excellent little videos.)

Vidoes would be a great way to introduce clients to the library -using the catalogue, for research skills, using various databases, showing them around the library, exhibitions etc.

Wiki

Haven't been keeping up very well. So I'm a bit behind. Maybe when the program gets rolled out it could be spread out over a couple of weeks per topic? For those staff who go on leave, are particularly busy for a couple of weeks etc.

Had a look at the Wikipedia entry for the State Library. Very bare. Compare the NLA which has what looks like an authorised entry with lots of information. We're missing a great opportunity to sell ourselves - we could include links to our catalogue, exhibitions, PICMAN photos etc.

I've been looking at some of the other suggested wikis eg Monatan History wiki and thinking how useful they would be for subject guides for Family History ro other big ranging subjects that are difficult to pull together. A wiki seems like a more manageable tool than a Navigator. I notice the Montan History wiki is not open to editing - but you can send comments to an email address.
We could use a wiki on our intranet for policies, procedures and shareing other types of info instead of sending emails out to large groups of staff.

Flickr

The photos of the State Library are wonderful. They really show the library as part of Sydney's cultural heritage, and as a beautiful building that graces Sydney's urban landscape. The library (I guess I'm talking about the Mitchell wing here) is such a lovely building and these photos are an opportunity to show it off to people who might never set foot in it.
On the photos of the interiors and of people I guess I'm wondering about copyright and putting people on the internet who are not aware of this and/or who haven't necessarily given permission.
Labels and tag lines - a popular embracing of plain language cataloguing and retrieval terms.