Summary Post

This exercise makes me feel like I am falling behind the learning curve for Web 2.0. Again, "the more I know about the internet, the more I know I don't know about it." I am still not sure of what I am going to do with the knowledge I gain, either from this exercise or any where else. I love to learn about the world around me and what other people are learning.

My favorite discovery was the posting of driving experiences on U-Tube.

I want to set up a personal wiki for my cousins to post ancedotes about their experiences and stories about my grandfather. His father fought in the Civil War. My grandfather came across country in a covered wagon to homestead in Oklahoma, and he lived long enough to see men land on the moon.

I should be blogging and recording my life experiences, but I never took time to even keep a journal before the paradigm changed.

I enjoyed this experience, and I will encourage my staff to take part in it even more so now that I have finished it.

I would definitely participate in additional discovery programs such as this. It has been easier for me to participate in my spare-time rather than in a classroom setting.

NetLibrary / Guttenberg Project

I created a logon fpr Netlibrary, and displayed the "Mathematics and Statistics" booklist. There were 50 titles listed and most of them seemed priced rather high (2 out of 50 were priced below $50.)

The Gutenberg Project site was more to my tastes because it provides free downloads. I looked at the "Top 100 Downloads" and noticed that "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe was listed. This version was a French and English translation illustrated by Gustave Dore. I had a dnice Bibliographic record as well as copies of the illustrations.

I was interested in posting a digital copy of books we have scanned, so I clicked on "How to Donate." I discovered this was how to donate funds to support the Gutenberg Project.

YouTube

The video I chose was "Petite du Toure Lotus Seven JPE" It does not a have an application to our library's website. It is fun to watch a Lotus Super Seven being driven: curves easily passing by; mini-van impeding a sports car enthusiast's fun; the shear joy of driving in an open car.

I have not visited YouTube until today, and the videos of people driving their Lotus Super Seven's inspires me to get my back on the road.

Web 2.0 Award Winning Sites

I looked at "Wayfaring" in mapping. I have some experience with Google maps, so I thought I would try something else.


First I tried the "Build a map of your event." The first thing I noticed was how slow it was to load, and I waited for the map to come up I noticed that it was "Powered By Google." It was taking so long to load that I had time to notice that it was loading "Hybrid" so I clicked on "Map" and it came right up.

Clicking on the middle of the "zoom" scale caused the page to slow down again. I am using a 100 Mbps link, and 2 full minutes to update the map seems to be too much of a delay.

I switched back to "Create a map of your life." The posts by various people to the "BilOregon" map which was the default were in several different languages. But still not map after 2 minutes, just a lot of numbered "push-pins" that did not link to anything. I abandoned "Wayfaring" because it took so long to load the maps.

Next I tried "Frappr!" It appears to me that this site is a social networking site with a world map as the main entry point with various subjects linked to it.

Zoho Writer

“My favorite car is the Lotus Super Seven Series 2, but the Lotus automobiles are all interesting to me. The early Lotus Elite was fascinating, and the modern Elise is keeping in the tradition of light, fast cars.”
Being able to save this document to my computer is a nice feature.

I was not able to post it directly to my blog because it is not on "Blogger" or one of the other default blog sites.

I was not able to save the file as HTML on my computer. When I tried to save it as a Rich Text Format file, it only kept the formatting for the outline.

I saved it as a “Word” document to my desktop and did a “copy/paste” to put it in this blog.

Wiki's

Wiki's could be useful in reviewing books and recommending books to other library users. You could have an online book discussion group using wiki's.

I also see wiki's as a way to collect and preserve local history that would normally be "oral" histories.

My Views on Library 2.0

Some of Web 2.0 is being incorporated into library's policies and procedures; some changes need to be done by library suppliers and venders so libraries can utilize Web 2.0's technologies; some newer technologies have not gotten enough attention on the web to be applied to libraries; libraries and librarians will find what is being used on the web and apply it to their librarys.

Wikipedia - Library 2.0

"Wikipedia - Library 2.0" is a nice overview of what is happening in libraries. What will happen is to found in the discussions listed under the "References" for this page.

To a temporary place in time

"To a temporary place in time... : On the way to the library experience of the future" by Dr. Wendy Schultz, Infinite Futures, is amusing (LOL). I like the idea that Library 4.0 will absorb the other libray constructs, and become an "experience." However, I don't see the library of the future being what he describes as a "knowledge spa." Libraries will incorporate new technologies and retain the old technologies, blending them to provide the best blend of service for its users.

To better bibliographic services

"To better bibliographic services: expose, expand, extend metadata using Web 2.0" by John J. Riemer, Head, UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center, article brings up a dilema. If we are "pushing" information to the users, we run the risk of becoming irrelevant like so many pop-up ads that are summarily ignored.

To more powerful ways to cooperate

"To more powerful ways to cooperate : Build new services with Web 2.0 technologies" by Chip Nilges, OCLC Vice President, New Services, talks about some of the changes OCLC is pursuing. One change "... included a pilot program that allows anyone using Open WorldCat to contribute and share tables of contents, notes and reviews." This concept is very "Web 2.0," but it goes against the strict rules used to catalog using AACR-2 and Library of Congress standards.

Away from the “icebergs”

Away from the “icebergs” : Row your library boat into the Web 2.0 environment by Rick Anderson, Director of Resource Acquisition, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries, made three good points.

The “just in case collection" points out that it may no longer make sense to “collect” in the traditional sense at all.
"Reliance on user education" is no longer (and maybe never was) applicable to libraries. Most libraries are poorly equipped and insufficiently staffed for teaching these new technologies.
The “come to us” model of library service is out-moded. As he states, the Web 2.0 gets libraries in the business of "placing library services and content in the user’s preferred environment."

What I Find Intersting on Technorati

This list of "Top Searches" was interesting (7/16/07 at 2:50 PM CDST):
youtube, ron paul, noelia, frank rich, iphone, harry potter, paris hilton, descargar,galilea montijo, huckabee, hoteldipity, music, mallu, google, and mario lopez

"Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things" was listed as the first "Top Favorite Blogs" and teh second "Top Blogs." "Engadget" was the fifth "Top Favorite Blogs" and first on the "Top Blogs" list. There is some correlation between visits and popularity.

This is belaboring the obvious, but none-the-less interesting to me.

Technorati

I searched Technorati for "Learning 2.0" and a listing under the tab "Posts" appeared. It desplayed a list of blogs in a text format with thumbnails associated with the posts.

When I clicked on the "Blogs" tab, it displayed a shorter description of the post and a thumbnail of a webpage.

When I clicked on the "Quick View" tab, it gave an even more abrievated description of the post with a thumbnail associated with it.

I found the listing of how recent the posting were in the "Quick View" and the " Posts" useful. I noticed that almost all of the thumbnails in the postings for the "Quick View" and the "Posts" were blank. I guess people have not posted their image or do not want to post their image. (Or, this might be a new feature that users have not started taking advantage of.)

Del.icio.us

This is an interesting site. I can see that it would be useful for saving references to webpages when you are doing a websearch. It could be for your personal editification or searching for a patron reference question. You could load the sites into your "favorites" as you are browsing, and then come back to them to retrieve the needed information later.

I will seriously consider creating a del.icio.us account later.

Rollyo-2

After reading more of the Exercise #12 instructions and viewing how others have set up Rolloy, I find that it could be a useful tool. There are certain sites that I like to search for specific information. Using Rollyo to search ALA's site, and PLA's site, and FLA's site would make the search specific to library realated topics.

Rollyo

I find the Rollyo customized web search an interesting idea, but I am too lazy to set up a list of sites/search engines. I have generally been satisfied with specifice search engines (e.g., yahoo, google, excite, etc.) I also use specific terms and "strings" in quotations.

LibraryThing 2

I am a little disappointed that LibraryThing wants $10 a year. I have been a cataloguer in a public library. The idea of paying to catalog goes against my grain when I know I can get paid to catalog books.

ImageChef.com

I used “www.ImageChef.com” to create a graphic for my post “Beach Books” I had to edit it the link in the “Edit Html" on the "compose" page of Blogger to get the name of the link changed, and it still did not display as I had hoped. I think it takes a little more knowledge of webpage design; it is not just “click-and-paste.”

AncientLibrary.com

As I was looking at “LibraryThing” I clicked on the link to www.ancientlibrary.com
The website looked like a commercial site; not what I expected. Then I noticed at the top of the page “ancientlibrary.com expired on 07/05/2007 and is pending renewal or deletion.”

This heightens one’s awareness of how fluid the web is.

Beach Books
Two books that are interesting reading for the Summer are:
"Bachelor's Puzzle" by Judith Pella, and
"On Chesil Beach" by Ian McEwan