Investigative Exercise 11 Recommendations

Write a substantial post about the recommendations you would make about the use of 2.0 technologies in your individual library service.  Give specific examples from other best practice libraries worldwide.  Provide links to all these examples.  Again use the following 5 categories to discuss in your response - Local Studies, Children’s, Teenage/Youth, Adult Fiction, Information/Reference.  Make certain you label your post, this post will require multiple labels.

                                                         

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Investigative Exercise 10 Evaluation

 Write a substantial post about the use of 2.0 technologies in your individual library service of your LGA.  Discuss what is available in the following 5 library service areas: Local Studies, Children’s, Teenage/Youth, Adult Fiction, Information/Reference. If there are little or no 2.0 technologies for your library service give 3 reasons why you think this might be so. Make certain you label your post.

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Investigative Exercise 9 Community Profiles

State which local council area you live in – you will be investigating your local library service.  Write a post (about a paragraph long) giving a “community profile” of the people/area your library service is for.  Include links to the Council website for your Library service and to the Library section of this website.  This might be a good post to add an image of your library or Council area.

To give you some ideas of what to include in your community profile take a look at this definition

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&rlz=1R2TSAU_enAU372&defl=en&q=define:community+profile&sa=X&ei=zZB4TP_8LsHBcenwzIQG&ved=0CBQQkAE.

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Exercise 8 - CURRENT AWARENESS POST

Watch the following Youtube clip – post a comment in response

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7q9u865SVk

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Investigative Exercise 7 Podcats

Podcasting is a way of automatically downloading audio or video files to your computer. You can then play this audio or video file. 'Podcast' generally refers to audio files whilst 'Video Podcast' (or 'Vodcast') refers to the distribution of video files in the same manner.

Find a podcast in any Australian library. Post to your blog a short summary of the podcast. Include the library’s name, title of podcast and link. Make certain you label your post. 

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Investigative Exercise 6 Social Bookmarking

Take a look at the catalogue of the State Library of Tasmania http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/. Search the catalogue for the book Born or bred?: Martin Bryant: the making of a mass murderer by Robert Wainwright.  Read the reviews made by library users about this book.

Also take a look at the system for book reviews by following this link at Clarence Regional Library  http://www.crl.nsw.gov.au/readers-corner/book-reviews/ 

 Click on the section  “to read all book reviews placed from other readers.”   Take a look at the recent reviews made on this catalogue

 Take a look at the recent reviews made on this catalogue.

 Write a post on your blog commenting on the usefulness of these reviews. Do you think libraries should be providing this service? Does the library you use have this option available on their catalogue?  Make certain you label your post. 

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Investigative Exercise 5 Social Networking

People can have their own personal webpage housed in a communal website. It is a great way to build up professional networks and collaborate in a workplace. It is considered a community building tool.  Facebook is currently very popular for individuals and there is a feature where you can create page for a celebrity, band or business.  MySpace has been used a lot by libraries. An example of library activity in 2009 on MySpace is Yarra Plenty Library. Do a Google search for “Myspace and Yarra” to find this site. Also take a look at what the National Library of Australia has done on Facebook. http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/gateways/issues/94/story07.html

Do a Google search for the following phrase - “I'll Bet I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Think Libraries Are Important”. Take a look at this advocacy site on Facebook. It also has some great quotes about the value of libraries. Write a post on your blog about why you think it is a good idea for a library to participate on a social networking site, or why not. Make certain you label your post.

If you are a Facebook member you might like to join the “Libraries are important” site. (joining Facebook and/or joining this site is not assessed).

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