feed me

So I've found a lawley & library related blog to feed on:  mamamusings - Liz Lawley's 'thoughts on technology, academia, family, and tangential topics'. Liz Lawley is the Director, RIT Lab for Social Computing, Rochester Institute of Technology and is (today, in fact) giving a presentation at the Internet Librarian 2010 conference in California . I now have the mamamusings RSS feed in my Google Reader.

A few other of library related feeds I've subscribed to for are while are:

• Jessamyn West's librarian.net - 'putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999'
• David Lee King  - 'social web | emerging technologies | libraries'
• LISNews -  'The Cream of the Crop'

..and for something a little bit more humorous there is Awful Library Books (although I actually follow this site via twitter  rather than through their RSS feed).



At Cockburn Libraries, our library catalogue now has the ability to produce RSS feeds from catalogue searches. I have been experimenting with these a little bit, and I've added the RSS feed for the new music CDs search to the right hand column of this blog (& my RSS reader).

Other useful RSS feeds: the feed from the PLO noticeboard is imported into our staff homepage, and there is of course the Cockburn Libraries blog feed to satsify your hunger for all thing Cockburn Libraries

see...

Old Lawley

there are over 1,100 images on Flickr with a tag of lawley , so I chose a couple of nice looking photos to to add to this blog,



Old Lawley shows some abandoned  stores in the town of Lawley, Alabama, while across the Atlantic there is a photo of Caer Caradoc Misty Farm, taken 'at the bottom of The Lawley' in Shropshire.

Caer Caradoc Misty Farm, 'taken at the bottom of The Lawley'

Apart form the pretty photos above,  there is also this one I've added - an image of Sir Arthur Lawley who was Governor of Western Australia from 1901 to 1902. It is from the Flickr site of the Library of Congress.
Digitisation of  libraries' historical & artifact collections and making them available online on sites such as flickr,  as the National Library of Australia  and Library of Congress are doing, is one of the really great ways libraries are using technology to improve access to their collections.

I also added a image from flickr to this blog's right hand column. Library, not lawley, related this image is for use ' in any pro-library or pro-librarian manner'. Came across  it via my facebook feed (which came via a friend which in turn came via Mylee Joseph's facebook page;  Mylee Joseph you will have noted, reading the credits on the WA Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Basics homepage, is one of the creators of the State Library of NSW's Public Libraries Learning 2.0 program - the program on which this is course is based).  The image can be downloaded from GeoShore's flickr page, and you can also buy it printed on a t-shirt.

well.....

a blog. When I tried to register my blogger url using just my name, blogger told me it was already taken, so I used this one:  lawleyonline.blogpsot.com .  So checking out what fantastic blog was located at lawley.blogspot.com,  I found this……..

lawley.blogspot.com

mmm……………

this would have to be the most minimalist blog ever. If you don't count the blogger toolbar, then it would be impossible to have any less on a webpage. Is it an anti-webpage? ... an anti-blog?

There is actually a website called the anti blog - http://www.theantiblog.com/ - which has no text, but does have a layout, so it is less minimalist than lawley.blogspot.com

After lucking-out at lawley.blogspot.com,  I decided to see what other sites on blogger  have lawley in their url and found these few.

Other Lawley related blogs on blogger that have no relation to me:

Lawley Green Space Group - http://lawleygreenspacegroup.blogspot.com/
A group that is "protecting, enhancing and utilising the green space in the Lawley area of Telford, Shropshire"

Lawley Languages - http://lawleylanguages.blogspot.com/
A blog for the Mount Lawley Senior High School A Specialist GATE Languages School
and also the blog for their Giro D'Italia  http://lawleyitalia2010.blogspot.com

Notes From a Small Planet - http://russell-lawley-gibbs.blogspot.com
I guess he means Earth

Mr & Mrs Lawley - http://hall-lawley.blogspot.com/
Must love dogs

Blogs are a many varied thing.