My Rollyo Search

I played with Rollyo and created my own search roll for guitar tab. My hope is that now, when I want to search for guitar chords for a certain song, I can search my rollyo search roll instead of the individual sites.

I haven't used rollyo previously, so I will try this one for a while before I give an "official" opinion. Thereotically, this type of search would work well if you find yourself searching specific sites all of the time.


http://rollyo.com/mandabrewer/guitar_tab/

Library Thing

I heard about LibraryThing a while ago and created an account. I love it! I use it to keep track of the books I have read, although you can have many accounts to keep track of various things (i.e.: the books you have at home, books you would like to read, recommended book lists for age groups, etc...)

If you want, you can visit my profile: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/mandabrewer

Wiki Part II

The draft for my BCL local author wiki is now finished!! After creating the bibliography, it was a breeze to copy and paste the text into the wiki editor. Throw in a few anchors and links, and the draft was done...check it out if you want to!

(By the way, I did have permission to make this wiki and it does have the county logo on it!)

http://www.beaufort-library.wiki.zoho.com

-Amanda

Wiki Part 1

I've been familiar with wikis for a while (especially since one of my library school professor's banned us from even mentioning the name "Wikipedia"). I, of course, feel that wikis are WONDERFUL! With every information medium you have to ask yourself, "who wrote this, should I trust this, is this good information for me, etc..". To me, wikis are no different than any other source of info, except that I get to contribute in my own way, in my own time, and in my own words.

For libraries, there are several reasons why wikis work as a shared information collaboration space. Right now, I'm working on a local authors wiki site. I chose the wiki format because a blog wouldn't display the information in a userfriendly format and I wanted to have a forum where people could add their own information. Why should people not have the opportunity to share what they know. Maybe there's a local author who has published that hasn't reached any of our desks, yet....Information sharing...it's a good thing.

Tagging

Week 4's BCL 2.0 lesson was on tagging though del.icio.us and was somewhat of a refresher course from the crash course I took in April when I started working at BCL. Previously, I had not heard of del.icio.us until working at the Beaufort Branch reference desk, but immediately found that, if not overwhelming, it could be used as a great resource.

For example: we have selected websites and tagged them into subject categories. When someone asks me a business question, my mouse already has websites on the ready under the "business" tag.

If we noticed we were getting a lot of questions regarding the recent "Big Swim" mermaid map, we could tag the appropriate webpage and have it at the ready whenever someone asks. If done right, the tags help you recall the information you need by how you will remember to retrieve it.

Ahh...powerful!