Finished

What an amazing course, thank you!

I have enjoyed learning and found the course great. It has been an enjoyable way to learn and the possibilities for libraries are great and endless. We just have to think what is the best way to implement and how to make our customers aware of what we are doing.

But I think it is going to be an exciting time ahead.....

Google Zoho

It is amazing that what was once so expensive is now freely available. Not only it is great to be able let customers know what they can do, but documents can be made more widely available to staff, and it makes commenting and changing documents easy.

Both google docs and zoho seem great. I personally like the way zoho is presented but they both seem to offer what is basically needed.

I have really enjoyed this weeks learning

Mashups are fun and would be great for kids activities and could probably be used to promote things in and around the library.

The more business like mashups would be useful but probably further into the future when we have a few more things up and running.

Podcasts

Podcasts are great, and something that can be easily utilised by the library. Just looking through the library success wiki there is an amazing variety in the use of the podcast. We could use podcasts book discussions, author talks, information about services that are offered and maybe for staff how to use certain resources??? The list is endless.

Answer Boards

It often surprises me on people seem to be unaware of what there library can do for them, or what librarian actually do. This is a great way of showing people we can search for an find information. But really, do they realise it is from a librarian? and will they think to use the skills of their local librarian? I* would like to think so, but I doubt it.
I'm not sure how it could be applied to the local library, but it is something to think about. We need to remind people what we can do.

Library Thing, Delicious, Technorati

All of these were interesting, and if only I had more time to spend on them all I think I would become addicted!!!!
I love delicious and how it can be applied to the public library, the AskNow resources are great and to have them easily available and accessible is fantastic.