# 17 Playing around with PBWiki

Adding the title of my blog to the favourites wiki went well and I enjoyed exploring

the different favourites listed - such as favourite vacations or holidays!

#16 So what's in a wiki?

Wikis at least seemed familiar to start off with - as nearly everyone would have come across Wikipedia when searching the internet. It was great to discover library wikis that had lots of very pertinent information. I particularly liked Library Success : a best practices wiki and spent quiet a bit of time exploring the topics. The Readers Advisory area was great and I enjoyed Book Groups and Recommending Books.

http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Wikis have lots of great uses in libaries especially from the readers advisory point of view - for booklists, website recommendations, reference sources - all sorts of things!

#15 Web 2.0 and Library 2.0

John Reimer's - "To better Bibliographic Services" struck a cord with me as I am in the Bibliographic Services team at Darebin Libraries. Libraries have certainly had a history of cooperatively sharing cataloguing and thus I read with interest of the possible uses of streamlining metadata creation. It makes sense to enhance sharing of information in much deeper ways through technology. Rick Anderson's - Away from the Iceberg's was quite accessible also and made me think carefully about those 3 major icebergs that threaten libraries - 1.The just in case collection 2.Reliance on user education 3.The Come-to-us model of library service. I agree heartily that libraries need to acknowledge and adapt to fundamental changes in our marketplaces!

#14 Getting not so technical with Technorati

Technorati is the leading search tool and authority for blogs.
Considering that Technorati says that last year over 50 million blogs
were tracked by them, this is huge! I explored Technorati and found
14,880 posts of blogs for the term 'learning 2.0' and 931 actual blogs.
Searching one of my favourite subjects for this exercise 'Jack Russells'
resulted in 196 blogs. The popular section in Technorati is interesting
to visit with 'Top Favourited Blogs' - Boing Boing is at the top of the list.

#13 Tagging and social bookmarking in del.icio.us

Social bookmarking seems to be a very smart concept and is great for
sharing favourite websites using tags which are made public.
Sharing great websites on similar topics and finding what other people
have discovered allows you to explore your topic on a deeper level.

#12 Rollyo exercise

I have enjoyed creating searchroll's for my blog and in particular found gathering the sites
for recipes and bookshops very useful. I consider this tool a very practical one!

#11 Librarything

I have enjoyed using http://www.librarything.com/ and have added entries of recent books I have read. I will tell my bookgroup about this site and suggest we set up an entry of books we have enjoyed for the year.


The Birth of Venus: A Novel Sarah Dunant
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Magician (Riftwar Saga) Raymond E. Feist
Silk (MTI) Alessandro Baricco
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.) Lionel Shriver