I love the idea of having specific days where Librarians go and answer questions at online Answer Boards. I do have 2 problems with this however. Do we really need days in which to promote the library and get librarians involved? It would be much better practice to have librarians checking answer boards regularly and getting involved.
My other problem is that people arent't aware that librarians are a direct source for information and the answering of their questions. I am being quite hypocritical here because before working in a public library i wasn't aware of the resources and knowledge that librarians and the services had to offer.
I see posting in Answer Boards a great way to promote the library service and the knowledge of librarians, it just seems frustrating that every post is only reaching a small minority.
I would love to see people just coming straight to their local librarian and asking their questions without having to resort to Answer Boards (and from experience i know answer boards are a last resort when you think you have exhausted all of the resources available to you).
It seems so disappointing to me that librarians have to go out and actively find questions to answer.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Tagging certainly is Del.icio.us
i've started simple with my delicious tagging http://delicious.com/pmr_mrl i've added my Libraries website, the State Library Website, www.geekthelibrary.org and a few others i need to remember for this course (which i had bookmarked in my browser).
Realistically i don't know how a tool like this would go with research assistance, certainly making delicious accounts for people and adding the bookmarks so that they can go home and use them, but otherwise i don't see the real benefit.
It is a great alternative to using the browser bookmarks (although i now have the Delicious website bookmarked in my browser, i doubt even delicious can help me remember that one!). From experience when upgrading my work computer it was frustrating losing all of my bookmarked pages, although i remembered most of them, some were websites that i'd come across randomly and thought would be useful at one time or another.
For me (doing the creation of storytime bags, marketing material, craft activities etc) it would be beneficial as i can tag the websites and then come back to them and just look at all the websites tagged for craft. It will make my life much simpler. But i will now have to do some work and get rid off all the bookmarks i have in firefox and add them to Delicious instead (they are now duplicated across the top of my browser which is a massive waste of space!)
Realistically i don't know how a tool like this would go with research assistance, certainly making delicious accounts for people and adding the bookmarks so that they can go home and use them, but otherwise i don't see the real benefit.
It is a great alternative to using the browser bookmarks (although i now have the Delicious website bookmarked in my browser, i doubt even delicious can help me remember that one!). From experience when upgrading my work computer it was frustrating losing all of my bookmarked pages, although i remembered most of them, some were websites that i'd come across randomly and thought would be useful at one time or another.
For me (doing the creation of storytime bags, marketing material, craft activities etc) it would be beneficial as i can tag the websites and then come back to them and just look at all the websites tagged for craft. It will make my life much simpler. But i will now have to do some work and get rid off all the bookmarks i have in firefox and add them to Delicious instead (they are now duplicated across the top of my browser which is a massive waste of space!)
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