#20 You Tube #21Podcasts #22 Audiobooks

I viewed YouTube some of the categories. I was looking for some sort of library induction, short video & could not find. I found so many interseting and useless videos. One of the intersting ones that I found was 'We are one'. The message is about unity/ humanity. It says we all have something common irrespective of many differences. We are one race sharing the world. I think this vedeo can be used in the library for Harmony day.

I dislike videos (so many) catered for cheap interests such as 'Pretty teenage tits'. One will have to filter through the myriad of videos to find something of value.

I think categaries such as People & Blogs, News & Business can be applied to library website; and also libraries can upload their own production, e.g. library week, story time, muti-cultural events etc.

#21 Podcasts
I tried Yahoo Podcasts & searched for library related ones & found 222 podcasts. I chose LibVibe: the library news podcasts. In addtion to very interesting episodes, I also found very strange ones too; e.g. 'Man found shot at library'; Spy camera upsets Tompkins County library employees.

I realised that podcasts are useful because they present us (and we also can present) what is happening around the world including the libraries.


#22 Audiobooks

I could not established a Netlibrary account; when I clicked on PLCMC, I got the message: "Page not found." Then I viewed Netlibrary's Demo on e-books & journals; later I read that a free account can be set up & looked for it and did not find. Then I viewed New eAudiobook collections-Feature Titles: 'Agnes og God {Audio Theatre Series} from home page and got the message: 'Internal Sever Error: ASP error".

In short without establinshing an account, I could not even get an abstract of a title that I am interested in.

#18 & #19 Web-based apps Discovering Web 2.0 tools

I tried Zoho using Zoho Sheet & Writer.

It is inresting to notice that one can use many options that MS Office application has used; eg. in the Sheet Summing, sorting (ascending/descending); inserting Rows/Colums, Bold; exporting to MS Excel (.xls)

In Writer I found that short cuts, do /undo as they are used in MS Word can be used. It found that Toggle HTML Source option is useful for those who are not familier with HTML codes etc.

In Summary, Zoho can be easily used by anyone who use MS Office applications.

I tried Social News tool Digg. I was impressed to see a news submitted a minute ago. It is interserting to note that Digg community can contibute news, videos, podcasts on any topic; coverage is limitless including technology, science, world & business sports, entertaining and gaming. News on Sports seemed to be US oriented; I could not find any on cricket (2nd test match played in UK at present) in the first 3 pages that I viewed.
This tools can be used in the library as news tool that encourage to present library community's news,views and comments.

#16 What's in a wiki

When I read some of the discovery resources and looked at some of the library wikis, I found that opportunity given to add subject guides is useful for clents who have research interests. Also found that the opportunity given clents to have their openions through 'Discussion" box, Books reviews etc. show that clients are important part of the library.

Ability have news relevant the organisation, topics of interest as seen on the web, tips on state of the art technology such as ten internet safety tips etc. encourage clients involvement and librarians' skills development in the tech age.