Week 5 - Wikis

This was certainly interesting.
Host of opportunities for a library to use a wiki - readers advisory group, procedures manual, event planning.
However, the big downside and one which gives me huge reservations regarding wikis in the open environment is that anyone can edit.

Week 4 - RSS

This week was OK!
I don't mind RSS - quickly gives you the highlights and then only a click away to read the stories you are interested in. It's not that problematic either to get it to work. Speaking from a novice's point of view.

I could see many advantages in the library environment. It could be a way to keep patrons informed in upcoming events, new resources and provide professional development for staff by keeping them informed on changes, new ideas, what other libraries are trying, etc.

One of big downsides however, is how do you find time to read and assimilate all the infomation that comes your way with email (can be hard enough to keep on top of this with normal workloads), listserves, printed material, blogs, rss?

Week 3

A beautiful example of an old world library.
This is very confusing. I know the link to the picture is there as it took me back to it but where is the picture. I purely did it for the process rather than content.
Checked again - the picture is there just had to click on the X - how about that!