Friday, July 30, 2010

Thing 7: Sharing Slide Presentations

I found this relevant e-book presentation and slideshare would be a great tool for the visual learner. We need technology that is easy to learn and that allows easy quick revisions since our resources can change often. Seems like lots of time is spent creating good online tutorials and then we lose the resource or access changes and revisions are needed. As a student, I would favor a short tutorial.

View this slideshare at the following link and you might change your view about e-books:

http://www.slideshare.net/nic221/reading-on-ebook-devices-the-user-experience

Week 6: Chat

I staff LRCLive and participated with the previous two services so I am familiar with the chat format as a reference tool. I do not chat for personal use. I like helping students with their research but with some questions, picking up a phone and calling would work much faster. There always seem to be technical issues where I have trouble sharing pages. Students want an answer quickly and as soon as you give them a clue—it’s usually goodbye—they can leave you wondering when they go off to try your suggestion and do not continue to chat. Our web page is being updated with Libguides and now has spotlights featuring some of our newest resources so a qwidget might be in the future.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Week 5: Wikis

I agree about all the emails when there’s a question or issue. The wiki would work better—like ordering pizza or doing the Saturday schedule. We have a shared drive for policies, procedures, brochures, and statistics that is similar to the Antioch list. I want to try to use this soon—it sounds very functional.

Week 3: Social Networking

Keeping up with all the emails and other library duties keeps me feeling overloaded…I haven’t been convinced that it’s necessary for me to join a social network. If I had lots of family and friends scattered around the country this could be a good way to keep in touch. Mine are close by and we use the telephone. Professional networks sound like a great way for career connections. Successes of other libraries using these as effective tools may convince me and yes they are being used on the college home page. I will have to get some feedback from Student Success personnel. When I hear problem privacy stories in the news, I'm even more reluctant.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Week 2: Setting up an RSS reader

You could call this going backwards. I'm way behind on the 23 things. I got stuck on trying to find relevant sites that would help me learn and I didn't want too many posts to appear. I've been previewing and searching and finally picked 5 to try--ExLibris (Aleph), Librarian.net, Twitter Explained for Librarians, LibWorm Query: questionpoint, and Libraries and Transliteracy. I'm on the lookout for ways to improve and update whether in circulation, library service, reference or instruction-or any other aspect for a community college library.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Week 1: Getting Started

I'm going to give 23 things a try. Little by little I hope to learn and share.