Wikis 2 & Meebo & Yackpack

I went in and added the url to the title "collection planning." I see the point of wikis. I especially see the point for classes with library instruction components. It would be incredibly useful to collaborate with a select few for a class assignment page (I feel I have already written this, but will keep this in my blog anyway). I use Google chat but hold no loyalty to it and would be happy to use meebo. I have installed it on my blog. I'd like to experiment with adding it to class assignment guides and set up on-line chat times with students throughout the quarter. It may be another venue for helping students with their library research, clarifying which resources to try, etc.

Yackpack, or any kind of voice over internet protocol seems like the perfect solution for all of those crazy back and forths we do (on airplanes) in the system for meetings. I'd like to see the UC system invest the money spent on travel to system-wide meetings into really usable, on-line collaborative meeting tools. I think we can get a lot done online and if using set-ups that allow us to hear each other's voices helps turn the worm on this one, then I'll get a microphone (and some duct tape) for my pc and lead the charge.

Library Thing & Wikis 1

LibraryThing:

I think this is something we can really work with and I would like to see us explore it as an enhancement to our catalog - as Danbury Public has done. I really appreciate the idea of taking controlled vocabulary and running it in parallel with tagging. It provides another access point for our users and, as we used to say in ILL, we're about getting the stuff to the people who need the stuff, so why not help the people get the stuff in whatever ways we can and in ways that make sense to them and not just us.

Wikis 1:

I think wikis have a lot of potential for libraries. Collaborative subject guides, collaborative assignment guides, collaborative training guides. I really haven't reached the "open it up to the world" idea though (for editing) and am leaning more towards the "open it up to this defined user group in the world" idea. I may get there (the world) by thing 23, we'll just have to see.

testing the technorati ping thing

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