After a week chock full of wonderful conference joy at VALA, it was a further joy and a bit of a relief to be able to attend Library Camp Australia 2012, at the Unversity of Melbourne on February 12th. Here are my assorted notes from the course of the day. 1st session – Jason Griffey …
Category: web apps
Feb 07
Libraries & the Post-PC era – Jason Griffey – VALA 2012
Steve Jobs 2010 – analogy to cars – we have had PCs for 30 years, but now our needs are being fulfilled by other devices – pads and smart phones for example. Once upon a time………… there was a princess, the princess loved books, but the princess also loved computers – enamoured with the digital, …
Sep 15
Information flow
I am very big on efficiency, including ensuring that our information flow from our library is used as effectively as possible. Our library has five blogs, four of which are hosted by Blogger. To make the most of this content, to ensure that people are seeing it when they don’t know about the blogs (and …
May 17
Emerging Technology Forum 2011 Geelong
I was fortunate to be able to attend the 3rd annual Emerging Technology Forum 2011 in Geelong, which is a collaboration between Deakin University, Geelong Regional Libraries and the Gordon Institute of TAFE on Tuesday 17th May. A long way to go, but well worth the travel. Stephen Abram – The future: Frankenbooks, social collaboration …
Nov 01
LibMark Digital Marketing and Libraries Pt 2
I began the afternoon session with a presentation on Web 2.0 and Marketing in Libraries. Unfortunately for the organising commitment, they had a second last minute cancellation, but were fortunate enough to have a couple of people step up and show what they were doing at their library. Danny was first. Darebin Libraries Website – …
Jul 29
Blogging after all these years
Its my fourth anniversary of blogging, my blogiversary. On the 29th July 2005, I posted my first entry to Connecting Librarian, at that time at blogger.com. Four years later and wow, what a ride! I’ve been thinking about blogging for a while now. Even considered stopping altogether, but couldn’t bring myself to do it. Although …
Jul 27
A blogging year in review
Its my 3rd blogaversary and I’ve been trying to think about what to post about to celebrate and decided its a good time to review the past 12 months of professional activity. So here’s what I consider are my major achievements professionally, both inside and outside of work. This is more for me I guess, …
Feb 19
Learning 2.0 Week 8 – Online Applications & Tools
This week its web-based apps and although the program directed us to use Zoho writer, I took the option of going with Google Docs instead. The reason? I have been having enough trouble keeping up with all the various logins and passwords, but with Google Docs I use the same login and password for Blogger …