#18 Final thoughts

I was a bit skeptical at the start but though the whole experience I have learned about some of the new technologies that are out there.

Some have little or no bearing on what I do at the moment, some do not necessarily float my boat but others do interest me and I have already incorporated them into both my professional and personal life.

What is good is that I know about them and if circumstances change or I want to embark on something I will be aware of additional resources that may be useful.

I will also be aware of many of these new technologies if a user of the library drops them into a question.

Overall it has been a worthwhile experience and one that I may not have undertaken were it not for the Learning 2.0 exercises.

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#17 Library 2.0

It seems to me that Library 2.0 is just the next step on the technology evolution trail. Libraries have embraced technology - albeit sometimes slowly - from Gutenburg's Day on and will no doubt take this latest change on board and adapt it to its best devices.

Already those energetic go-getting librarians are leading the way with great adaptations and thinking, theorising, postulating and letting us all know their thoughts (well, those who read library related blogs anyway)

We are about information, collecting it, organising it, disseminating it and preserving it. Library 2.0 is just another way of going about it. It provides advantages, challenges and opportunities as every other change has.

The world will go on (for a while anyway), Web/Lib 2.0 will morph into the next big thing (and we will probably all lose our Flickr photographs) and we will all adjust to that and move on....

the more things change the more they stay the same....

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#16 Podcasts

Love my ACC country countdown pod cast with Kix Brooks every week... too bad the whole thing isn't on...

LOC has some great podcasts.. recently Ken Burns spoke at the national book festival on his new work... I really like the way LOC have done things with webcasts etc... great way to get the word out about what they do their building etc...

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#15 You tube et al

Teacher tube is excellent... I finally understand the theory of relativity (http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=e619d49b8e0dfdc14aff)

Perhaps we need to post some how to use the SLV or SLV marketing here..might get through to a different audience..

You tube is terrific.. you can relive your youth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wzV7rGVwM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UydKeV26SbM) ... watch your friends misfortune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PovwSJ6CIQ) ....

or program your own country music TV program...

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#14 Web 2.0 Awards

More evidence of lots of creative people.

Love the stuff that individualises your web site. Thought I would use a widget to add my favourite music videos to the blog but none of those on offer did quite what I wanted - one specific video only that I can change easily at leisure.

Turns out Blogger provides just what I wanted as a page element so I decided to use that. Neat.

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#13 Technology

Mostly I like technology in the library.

I like the access to a vast range of information it gives to people so that they can follow their interests. On-line CD-ROMS, books, microform allow the vast range of human knowlege to be transmitted.

At times I find the contents ghastly, vastly uninteresting and simply wonder how or why some of the people who vegetate in front of screens watching You tube all day and chatting but then I realise that they would probably think the same about me and my interests... anyway it is just an extension of what we did (and still do) with books anyhow....

The flexibility that keyword searching has bought to reference work is perhaps the greatest boon... remember looking up the printed journal indexes. Only 1 or 2 access points inability to combine concepts...

Speedy communications with researchers and resources over vast distances is also fantastic whether by chat, or telephone or e-mail....

At the moment I don't see a whole lot of use for much of the Web 2.0 advances (!) in reference work (ie what I do) however in other aspects of the library such as education, marketing and promotion. It might be of particular use in the public library environment.

Tagging though, and its applications within library catalogues and the like that allow for additional pathways to information is a useful reference work 2.0 application.

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#12 Whistle at war - published via Zoho

Posted via Zoho writer - very clever - just like using the real thing. Opened from USB device (even recognised the highlighter) did some editing and published.

Great if you don't have access to a word processor but do have access to the WWW. But, really where in the world would EVER have a combination like that!!!!

Whistle at war

When Umpires’ Association members in the armed forces corresponded with Lindsay Lancaster during the Second World War inevitably in their letter they made the point that, due to censorship restrictions, they were unable to give much detail about where they were and what they were doing militarily. In fact one letter from Ken Creighton (B) must have crossed the line as a paragraph has been neatly cut out by the censor.What they could convey though was their general conditions and, more particularly their umpiring experiences.

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