Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Exercise 14 Add authors
I have added the following three classmates as authors in my blogger
- DavidPSem2Monitor2011
You can find these people under the title of 'contributors'.
Exercise 13, Changing the arrangement of my blog
I have made the following changs in the layout section of my blog.
- I changed the format of Navbar as Tan.
- In the post section, I adjusted the number of posts to display 8 posts in my main page.
- I added a new search box gadget on the top of the sidebar.
- I moved the followers gadget to the bottom of the contributors, so the order of the gadgets on the sidebar are search box, blog archive, contributors and followers.
- I added 'Kevin Chen, Copyright 2011' in the attribution section.
Exercise 12 changing the colour of your blog
I went to the advance setting page, and changed my blogger template design setting on below list:
Page: Arial
links color: #ce5f70, visited color:#6a1419
Blog Title: Georgia, 38px, #990000
Blog Description: Georgia, 16px
Post Title: #Georgia, 26px, #990000,
Mobile Button Color: #ac8d4e
Gadget Background bevel colour: #990000
Gadget Title: Georgia,16px, #ea9999
Images border colour: transparent
Page: Arial
links color: #ce5f70, visited color:#6a1419
Blog Title: Georgia, 38px, #990000
Blog Description: Georgia, 16px
Post Title: #Georgia, 26px, #990000,
Mobile Button Color: #ac8d4e
Gadget Background bevel colour: #990000
Gadget Title: Georgia,16px, #ea9999
Images border colour: transparent
Exercise 11, Recommendations
Recommendation on the using of Library 2.0 technology
It is very hard to find out which libraries in the world have the 'best practices’ to use the library 2.0 technology and utilize this technology into their categories such as 'adult fiction' or 'reference'. Maybe finding the definition or introduction of the Library 2.0 is easier than finding specific libraries. So I am going to go ahead and give some common comments and recommendations in using the Libraries technology to make the Hurstville Library more friendly.
I went to the Hurstville Library website and browsed their services provided, and I was surprised that the using of the library 2.0 technologies is fairly complete. It has its Facebook pages, twitter pages, blogger pages and Youtube video promotional ads, as well as RSS. In the local studies categories, it provides sufficient electrical information and other external links even a e-photo library catalogue.
Comparing to the local studies categories, the children's categories focuses on people services such as Art attack, book week, Dragonfly art club, school holiday activities, story time. I consider it can use more 2.0 technologies to make it more interactive, friendly and convenience anytime and anywhere, such as podcasts and vodcasts, fickr and Youtube to make it more visualizing.
In the teenage categories, the library already provides E-book, audio books, video book and mp3 downloading. However, if the library provides podcasts or online e-books services, it may be better.
Regarding adult fiction, the library already allows the users online bookmark the book and e-book downloading. But I look at the e-book catalogue, it only has several books, the amount is too few. I deem provide more electronic material such as e-books, DVD, MP3, podcast will be better.
In the relationship with Reference section, I think the library can try to provide some recommended bibliographies on each subject area and they can link to some external official critical websites such as the Global Books in print etc. It is helpful for the users to quickly find out the appropriate book he wanted and provide the users sufficient objective reviews.
Exercise 10 Evaluation
The Hurstville City Library service offers the use of Library 2.0 technologies in these following areas:
Local studies:
Local studies:
- History of Hurstville
- History of Local Suburbs
- History of Hurstville City Library, Museum & Gallery
- History of Hurstville Municipal Council
- Visits and Talks
- Hurstville City Time line
- Local History Research
- Local Studies Photo Catalogue
- Local History Walks
- Past Mayors
- Johnny Warren Sporting Centre
- History of Hurstville Oval
- The St Clair Recording Studio
- Art Attack- Come and explore a different art and craft medium each month
- Book Week-Information about activities and events at our libraries
- Dragonfly Kids Club-Information about becoming a member of the Dragonfly kids club
- School Holiday Activities-A computer schedule of school holiday activities
- Story time-Details story time activities for primary school aged children
- Your Tuto-Help the Year 4 students and up for their homework, and it is free.
- Provide HSC help, and the subject area including Business Studies, English-Belonging, Legal Studies, Mathematics and more
- Tertiary Preparation Program
- HSC sessions at the libraries including HSC talks, seminars and workshop
- Provide important web link for students
- Provide free online research databases for libraries members
- Provide library catalogue for SC and HSC material
Adult Fiction
- Free E-book download for members, as well as Audiobooks and Videobooks.
- Allow you add your review online of the book you have read.
- Allow you save the record temporarily when you are browsing the catalogue online.
- Provides external link to the Google Book Search to find some information about this book.
- Allow the users add his reviews online of the book they have used
- Allow the users save the record temporarily when they are browsing the catalogue online
- Provides external link to the Google Book Search to find more information about this book
Exercise 9 Community Profiles
Community profiles of my local library
My local council is the Hurstville City Council and the area I live in the council is Riverwood.
This Council is quite large including 11 suburbs. The resident population by the end of 2010 is 80,8230 people, and approximately one third of the population are borned from overseas. To find out the information of the Hurstrville, visit the library museum gallery section of the Hurstrville City.
I am close to Riverwood branch libraries, and sometime I go to the Hurstville City Library. The Hurstville City Library is much bigger the my local branch library. My local branch library, Riverwood Library mainly serve residential members, and the Hurstville City Library mainly serve businesses, business workers and residential members. The main characteristics of the above libraries is they both collect a lot of foreign publications.
To get further information, please visit the Hurstville City Council Community Profile.
My local council is the Hurstville City Council and the area I live in the council is Riverwood.
This Council is quite large including 11 suburbs. The resident population by the end of 2010 is 80,8230 people, and approximately one third of the population are borned from overseas. To find out the information of the Hurstrville, visit the library museum gallery section of the Hurstrville City.
I am close to Riverwood branch libraries, and sometime I go to the Hurstville City Library. The Hurstville City Library is much bigger the my local branch library. My local branch library, Riverwood Library mainly serve residential members, and the Hurstville City Library mainly serve businesses, business workers and residential members. The main characteristics of the above libraries is they both collect a lot of foreign publications.
To get further information, please visit the Hurstville City Council Community Profile.
the Hurstrville City Council Library
Exercise 8 Current Awareness Post
Automated Book Delivery System and Virtual Browse
This YouTube Video show the robot collect and delivery books in the James B. Hunt Jr. Library. In my opinion, this is surely a dream come true.
Libraries will develop towards high technology, digitization and networking to embrace the future. And now the Macquarie University Library are currently using the similar system which is called The Automated Retrieval Collection (ARC) System. This automated collection system will take very a short time to collect the books, instead take half a hour to collect by library staffs, so it can save the time and improve the work more efficiently.
This YouTube Video show the robot collect and delivery books in the James B. Hunt Jr. Library. In my opinion, this is surely a dream come true.
Libraries will develop towards high technology, digitization and networking to embrace the future. And now the Macquarie University Library are currently using the similar system which is called The Automated Retrieval Collection (ARC) System. This automated collection system will take very a short time to collect the books, instead take half a hour to collect by library staffs, so it can save the time and improve the work more efficiently.
Exercise 7 Podcasts
Podcasts in LibrariesI found this Podcast, Ebooks 2/7/2011, from the CHarles Sturt University Library website.
This Audio Podcast talk about how to borrow Ebooks in Charles Sturt University Library. And this website also provides the transcript of this article. It is very helpful and convenient for students to get information in the library.
Exercise 6 Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking
In the State Library of Tasmania catalogue, it allows customers write his personal reviews online on the book they have used and the reviews will be attached to this book's catalogue. When another user search for the same book, and the review will come up, so the user can read these reviews fist, and then decide to continually read this book or not.
I consider this hommization service is very convenient for users. It is very helpful for the borrowers to get a overall impression or other previous reader's critical opinions on this book before he borrow. And then make his own decision to borrow this book or not, so it can save the reader's time and make his work more efficiently.
I think every library should imitate the Tasmania Library to provide this service. My local public library, Hurstrville library provide this service currently.
In the State Library of Tasmania catalogue, it allows customers write his personal reviews online on the book they have used and the reviews will be attached to this book's catalogue. When another user search for the same book, and the review will come up, so the user can read these reviews fist, and then decide to continually read this book or not.
I consider this hommization service is very convenient for users. It is very helpful for the borrowers to get a overall impression or other previous reader's critical opinions on this book before he borrow. And then make his own decision to borrow this book or not, so it can save the reader's time and make his work more efficiently.
I think every library should imitate the Tasmania Library to provide this service. My local public library, Hurstrville library provide this service currently.
Exercise 5 Social Networking
The important of library:
- Research shows the highest achieving students attend schools with well-staffed and well-funded library media centers.
- Americans go to school, public and academic libraries nearly three times more ofter than they go to the movies.
- A 2009 poll condcuted for the American Library Assocaition found that 96% respondents agreed that public libraries play an important role in giving everyone a chance to succeed because it provides free access to material and resources.
- Social Networking is the digital door for libraries. Libraries can use Social Networking in the library activities, such as Marketing and Publicising. Libary can promote their events or activities to the young generations.
- Because in the social networking, All the menbers has been divided into many menbership or groups depends on many criterias such as interests, age, gender, location, libraries can utilize this to aim to its target population to make its work more efficiently.
- Librarise are probably experiencing a rapid big change in the historical revulution that trandistional libraries are transforming into digital libraries. So libraries embrance the younger generations.
- Libraries are going to global digital and netwok world is historical trendency. Using Fackbook, Twitter, Flicker, let itself keep pace with the times. A lots of libraris already did that includes many local libraris and Australian National Library.
Exercise 4 Youtube
Like father, like son
This a a short promotional video which was produced by The Finnish Library Association Association to celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2010. On the occasion of the anniversary The Finnish Library Association wants to promote the important role of the libraries in the transmitting cultural upbringing to the next generations. The video is 30 seconds long, it talks about a young father heard his son's happy laughter when he was reading a book in his bed. Then he got to to find out why, and discovered his baby son was reading a graphic children's book and laughing.
It is very funning.
This a a short promotional video which was produced by The Finnish Library Association Association to celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2010. On the occasion of the anniversary The Finnish Library Association wants to promote the important role of the libraries in the transmitting cultural upbringing to the next generations. The video is 30 seconds long, it talks about a young father heard his son's happy laughter when he was reading a book in his bed. Then he got to to find out why, and discovered his baby son was reading a graphic children's book and laughing.
It is very funning.
Exercise 3 Photo sharing and Flickr
Seattle Central Library
I found 11 pictures of the Seattle Central Library by the photographer, Channel Kev. This library is one of my favourite modern architectures around the world.
The Seattle Central Library opened in 2004 and was designed by Rem Koolhaas of OMA in a joint venture with LMN Architects and Front Inc. Facade Consultants. In 2007, the building was voted on the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) list of Americans' 150 favourite structures in the U.S. The building received a 2005 national AIA Honor Award for Architecture.
This link for this photo stream is http://www.flickr.com/photos/yonderkev/256681014/in/photostream/
Exercise 2 Slideshare
Embracing Library 2.0 and Web 2.0 for Quality Library Service
This is a good "Training Library Staff" presentation on Slideshare.
It is a presentation for the the conference of Philippine Women College on the topic of "Emerging Landscape, Mindscape and Netscape of Philippin Books, Information Sciece and Technology for Quality Services". It talk about the Web 2.0 and library 2.0 environments, how web 2.0 tools can market and promote library services, how library 2.0 applications can be integrated into the library's programs, and how tho make the library's space more interactive, collaborative, and driven by community needs. It is good for trainning library staffs.
This is the link to this presentation.
This is a good "Training Library Staff" presentation on Slideshare.
It is a presentation for the the conference of Philippine Women College on the topic of "Emerging Landscape, Mindscape and Netscape of Philippin Books, Information Sciece and Technology for Quality Services". It talk about the Web 2.0 and library 2.0 environments, how web 2.0 tools can market and promote library services, how library 2.0 applications can be integrated into the library's programs, and how tho make the library's space more interactive, collaborative, and driven by community needs. It is good for trainning library staffs.
This is the link to this presentation.
Exercise 1 Investigative Blogs
I like this article from the "Library in black" blog. The inventions which are introduced in this site are very creativity. I like these gadgets very much. This website discusses about how certain libraries are moving to embrace the online world, and traditional libraris are going in dark. So every librarians should keep on developing theirself to catch up with the time.
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