# 16 - Wiki's

I was aware of Wikipedia, but I can see that there are alot of possibilities for Wiki's in the library. Things that could be set up easily and maintained. For example:

• Subject lists/pathfinders
• Booklists - if you liked this author, try ...
• Intranet - put the policies, procedures, forms, etc into a wiki for use by library staff only
• Community wiki - either expand upon the current CIS setup or create something new which will build upon current community outreach activities and build links with individuals and community groups / neighbourhood houses
• Local History encyclopedia - get the observations and recollections of as many people as possible

Now the challenge is getting everyone on board and setting up the wiki's

# 15 - the future with 2.0

It is my belief that the library industry and profession is in the middle of reinventing itself in order to be flexible and open enough to integrate the new technologies and evolution of the web .

We need to be actively looking at the possibilities and seeking ways to utilise these new tools which are appearing with web 2.0 and which will continue to evolve into web 3.0 and beyond. It involves us recognising that a combination of actual and virtual service is required to meet the needs of our community - working in tandem with one another.

If you think back to the introduction of the internet 12-13 years ago and how it has grown and developed, it is fairly obvious that where we'll be in 5-6 years (let alone another 12-13 years) could be far beyond what what we even imagine now. Certainly the rapidly increasing popularity of virtual libraries and online databases, where the community can access information and services from the convenience of their home, work or wherever they are travelling, is an indication that this will be a major area of growth and we need to ensure its continued development.

It's an exciting time to be involved in the libraries.

# 14 again - searching for blogs on technorati

Pretty easy to do the searches, just type in the keywords and the list appears. With the amount of blogs tracked, you wonder if there is any topic not covered.

My blog is now listed and tagged, I don't suspect that it will be viewed by too many people, so I don't expect to see it showing up in the popular list anytime soon.

# 14 - Technorati and claiming my blog

Technorati Profile

Well I've registered with technorati and are now claiming my blog. I'm unsure where this will lead me, but lets give it a go and let the spiders out.

# 13 - Delicious

This was not entirely unfamiliar as I believe that Del.icio.us is a variation on furl which was in vougue 2-3 years ago.

I've registered on Del.icio.us and imported my favourites across, but still need to do some playing around with tags.

Unfortunately I am unable to add the 2 recommended icons to my toolbar, as our IT department has blocked this functionality. However, I will perserve on without them.

# 12 - Rollyo'ing

Bit daunting at first, but then realised that I had already started with the AFL flavour on my bloglines, so that all I needed to do was to go back and find the HTML codes for those feeds again, as well as adding in all the individual club feeds.

This seemed to create the search engine okay, but then I had some problems in getting the HTML code so that I could include it in my blog. Anyhow I figured it out and now you will find (if you scroll down) that there is an AFL News search engine available for you to use.

# 11 - Library thing rocks!!

What a great tool, it's simple to join and to easily add books to. I could have been there for hours adding linking to my favourite books, in the end I just picked up on some of my favourites and what I've been reading.

Very easy to add the search widget to the blog, however, I discovered when trialing it that the search results were not showing fully due to the template I've been using, so this has just lead to a 30 minute session of viewing all the other templates to choose another which enabled the search results to show fully.

I'm still not completely happy with the current template, so don't be surprised if it my blog changes it's look again soon as I search for the perfect look.