Typing 'lawley' into youtube gives you lots of videos of a guy (Chris Lawley) doing Yes covers in his lounge room (he must really like Yes) and ...well...a sort of christian vs atheism video war with the anti-'leftist', anti-atheist rantings of a fundamentalist christian (Brock) Lawley and seemingly everyone else ranting about his rantings. Best not to get involved, though you get to hear 'lawley' in an Amercian accent.
We also get Liz Lawley, appearing again in this blog, giving a Google TechTalk: The Evolution of Expertise (Abstract: Does Web 2.0 represent a triumph of the wisdom of crowds, or the tyranny of mediocrity? The truth--as truths often do--may fall somewhere in the middle....) . Included in the talk are such topics as: an expert in tying shoe laces, delicious, world of warcraft, librarian trading cards, information gatekeepers, librarything, and at one point Liz asks "why are you here listening to me, when you could watch a video of it later?"
It goes for an hour, so I have chosen not to embed it here, instead here a video of New York band, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart with their song Young Adult Friction. They played here in Perth earlier this year at the Beck's Music Box during the Perth Festival. (Keeping the library/literary theme going, at next year's festival, New York folktronica duo The Books will be performing at the Music Box)
I could say some stuff about using video in the library, but conveniently this week's episode of This Week in Libraries is Video Killed the Blog Star - so you should just watch that instead.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
the space between blog and email may or may not be an f and six asterisks
Week 7 - it seems things are heating up...
A fan, a fan, my kingdom for a fan
......or as Fugazi's Guy Picciotto put it in 1995 - Do you like me?
Big news in the unsocial media last week when the Queen launched her facebook page. The page is actually "the official Facebook page for the British Monarchy, offering updates on Royal news and events" rather than a personal page for the Queen (and please don't confuse that page with the page for Queen). If you think about how social the Queen really is - she has snipers stationed outsider her house - and then compare that to what a social place a public library is; so if even the British Monarchy have a facebook page, why doesn't your local library?
Like the British Monarchy | Like the Cockburn Libraries
(and I'm sure you could find me on facebook if you wanted to)
A fan, a fan, my kingdom for a fan
......or as Fugazi's Guy Picciotto put it in 1995 - Do you like me?
Big news in the unsocial media last week when the Queen launched her facebook page. The page is actually "the official Facebook page for the British Monarchy, offering updates on Royal news and events" rather than a personal page for the Queen (and please don't confuse that page with the page for Queen). If you think about how social the Queen really is - she has snipers stationed outsider her house - and then compare that to what a social place a public library is; so if even the British Monarchy have a facebook page, why doesn't your local library?
Like the British Monarchy | Like the Cockburn Libraries
(and I'm sure you could find me on facebook if you wanted to)
I tweet therefore I am
Love it? Hate it? Not sure? ...though more of a tweetee than a tweeter , I would guess I'd lean towards the love it, for the amount of really useful and interesting links that appear in my twitter stream . Choose your followees, then immerse yourself. Someone already had lawley so I'm lawley_y (but folllow him, he's probably more interesting).
Cockburn Libraries tweet, though at the moment it is really only sending out information, rather than creating connections. This is part of the twittersphere that, tweeting as libraries, we should embrace more. In reading 26 Twitter Strategy Tips and Tricks for Success - Active - Be Honest - Click – Don’t Worry! – Encourage – Follow Wisely - Global Connections - HABITUDES! Ignite Dialogue – Jump into the Fray - Kindness – Listen – Manage Yourself – Name – Outside Your Field – Proclaim – Question - Relationships – Start Now - Tweet with purpose - Unlimited Potential - Visualize your PLN- (Personal Learning Network) - Wise – X-tra Efforts Matter. - You! - Zweeeet! - there are definitely points for our library to act on, though I think they were pushing it a bit with Zweeeet!
Cockburn Libraries tweet, though at the moment it is really only sending out information, rather than creating connections. This is part of the twittersphere that, tweeting as libraries, we should embrace more. In reading 26 Twitter Strategy Tips and Tricks for Success - Active - Be Honest - Click – Don’t Worry! – Encourage – Follow Wisely - Global Connections - HABITUDES! Ignite Dialogue – Jump into the Fray - Kindness – Listen – Manage Yourself – Name – Outside Your Field – Proclaim – Question - Relationships – Start Now - Tweet with purpose - Unlimited Potential - Visualize your PLN- (Personal Learning Network) - Wise – X-tra Efforts Matter. - You! - Zweeeet! - there are definitely points for our library to act on, though I think they were pushing it a bit with Zweeeet!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
tag, you're it!
On delicious, 37 bookmarks include a tag of lawley . One of the bookmarks is for social consequences of social tagging; a posting by Liz Lawley on the site Many 2 Many - 'a group weblog on social software'. The post is from 2005 and in it Liz makes some interesting points about the word choice used in social tagging of images/websites (bookmarks)/books etc.; 'Knowing that your descriptors will change how people can access your content can’t help but change the way you use the tags—just as knowing that people will read your blog influence the way you write.'
Social bookmarking and libraries.
In the olden days libraries used to have pages on their websites with lists of links, usually sorted into subject groups. The problem with these was that the had to be constantly checked and updated and required a lot of time compiling. And every library had a small collection of these links which would often have much the same links as all the other libraries around, and not many people looked at these links, as they were a bit out of the way and once you had search the library catalogued to see if there were any relevant books, you would then do a internet search, and probably find most of the listed links anyway. Libraries should either have important websites listed in their catalogues, with full MARC records, so that users searching the catalogue can find them along with other resources - or/and utilise social bookmarking sites, such as delicious, to have all their bookmarks tagged and easily accessible to everyone. A good example of the latter is how SLWA's geneology section have set a delicious account for genealogy websites; check out their tag cloud .
Librarything
I have added a widget from my librarything account to this blog. Some books I have read.
Social bookmarking and libraries.
In the olden days libraries used to have pages on their websites with lists of links, usually sorted into subject groups. The problem with these was that the had to be constantly checked and updated and required a lot of time compiling. And every library had a small collection of these links which would often have much the same links as all the other libraries around, and not many people looked at these links, as they were a bit out of the way and once you had search the library catalogued to see if there were any relevant books, you would then do a internet search, and probably find most of the listed links anyway. Libraries should either have important websites listed in their catalogues, with full MARC records, so that users searching the catalogue can find them along with other resources - or/and utilise social bookmarking sites, such as delicious, to have all their bookmarks tagged and easily accessible to everyone. A good example of the latter is how SLWA's geneology section have set a delicious account for genealogy websites; check out their tag cloud .
Librarything
I have added a widget from my librarything account to this blog. Some books I have read.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
wiki'd
The Cockburn Libraries' blog was not listed on the Blogging Libraries Wiki, so I created an account and added it to the list of public library blogs; my first wiki contribution. Wikis seem to be a great way for people to build up of a collection of information about and knowledge of a particular subject. - Hey, according to Wookieepedia , John Lawley played oboe in the London Symphony Orchestra during the recording of the Phantom Menace score. Staying on Wookieepedia, there is a character listed as Unidentified librarian's daughter, who is the daughter of the character listed as Unidentified librarian, which may actually make her the Unidentified librarian's unidentified daughter.
There are obvious uses in the library environment for a staff wiki, like the Antioch University's Staff Training and Support Wiki listed in Week 5. Having all the procedures, policies easily accessible and, allowing anyone to update & change as required would be a valuable staff tool.
There are obvious uses in the library environment for a staff wiki, like the Antioch University's Staff Training and Support Wiki listed in Week 5. Having all the procedures, policies easily accessible and, allowing anyone to update & change as required would be a valuable staff tool.
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