Web 2.0 tools

Although there are a great number of interesting sites and tools to use, I found the indexing of other people's documents difficult to access. The variety of formats, backrounds and tools that one could use to create documents and power point presentations gives people room to be creative.

Zoho Writer

Now I can type up a document on any computer and edit it from any computer. I see a lot of possibilities with that. There's a lot of features on Zoho and they're easy to use.

PBCLS Wiki

I like how easy it is to add anything to the pbcls wiki. Seeing what others submitted is very interesting. Being able to link directly to a website for more information is useful.

Wiki

The SJCPL subject guides page was interesting but it needs more subheadings. I stumbled upon a language learning site called Mango languages under the subject of education. Under the initial page, the subject education could have had additional categories for education as well as a separate link to language learning.

The library success wiki has a lot of interesting stuff that I'd like to eventually read.

I can see where having a wiki for an ALA conference would be useful since often the times and places of meetings change and new information can be updated at any time.

I absolutely love the Bull Run Library wiki. One thing that I think is great is you can search a book in Worldcat. It'll tell you what library has it as well as give you the option to buy the book through Amazon. The library will get a certain percent of Amazon's profit. It would be good for our library system to do this. Also I love the links on the side. One that I see as useful as a librarian is the dewey decimal chart. Often I have patrons who don't understand the numbering system for non-fiction books. This would be helpful in showing them how the system works. Having a library website as a wiki is a good idea because you can get everyone to contribute and update the site rather than relying on the webmaster to do all the work.

Technorati

A lot of people are blogging about PBCLS especially promoting the mousing tutorial. I experimented with searching a variety of different subjects and was fascinated by the number of blogs that go into great detail about topics that interest me.

Del.icio.us

I have different favorites on every computer I use. It would be nice to have the same group of favorites to use even on other computers I might come across. This could be a wonderful tool for librarians to add useful sites to, using logical categories and be able to access these sites quickly and frequently.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 opens the door to do so much more with libraries. As one of the articles mentioned, we need to bring the library to users wherever they may be, accessing computers rather than expecting them to come to us. This means having more and more of our resources available online. But libraries will always be a special place to go to and libraries can be so much more. I liked what one article said: "We will need libraries as mind gyms; libraries as idea labs; libraries as art salons."

Webfeat

I found a shortcut to get information from ReferenceUSA when I typed in my hometown's high school. From there I got additional links to schools nearby.

LibraryThing

A sampling of my language learning collection. This could be a good tool to help recommend books to others. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lgbks

Image Generators

Never again, after reading this book, will I ever write 'West Palm Beach' instead of Greenacres on the return address. The things the library could do with the image generators are incredible. We could make some really interesting flyers.

RSS

Learning about RSS was a great experience. Not only do I have a bunch of interesting things to read from one location but I also discovered many new sites with the search tool.