Finding Time at Penn State

This presentation by Ellysa Cahoy shows how hard it can be to find some things in a library catalogue.
Fortunately on our web site access to Time magazine is only 4 clicks away ... although you do have to be onsite!!

Of cabbages--and kings

Late last year theauthor drew my attention to a new online journal code4lib. In its second issue there is an interesting article on the use of Web 2.0 tools for subject guides - http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/47

The wisdom of crowds

Can you name any of these characters?
If you think you know who they are -
add a tag as a comment ...
perhaps the collective wisdom of the Learning 2.0 group will prove Surowiecki's thesis

Puzzled .........

I have been trying to post a video on the Rum Rebellion featuring our own Paul Brunton. The short can be found on the Sydney Morning Herald's multimedia pages at http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/2008/rumrebellion/main.html
Perhaps theauthor can help me!!

Picture Australia's OurTown

I have added some images to Picture Australia's Ourtown group. The National Library checks the group regularly, acquiring some images for its Pictures collection. According to PA's Flickr Report by April 2008 there were 2,031 images in Ourtown. I have assigned Creative Commons licenses and tagged the five images taken around Chifley Square in Sydney with slnsw2008.
The State Library of Victoria has a group photo pool on Flickr which aims to collate photos of the Library, its exhibitions and events.

Where the wild things are

In its Scootle database, the Le@rning Federation makes digital resources available for online curriculum content. The resources are sourced from Australia and New Zealand's premier cultural institutions including the National Library (such as invitation here). We need to be there too! see
www.scootle.edu.au

Use of wikis & blogs for subject guides

Meredith Farkas, in her May 2007 American Libraries article, points out that wikis can make "a subject guide easier to update, searchable, and collaborative” (Farkas 2007, p. 33). Here is an Early Childhood Education Subject Guide Built Using a Wiki: http://www.lib.fsu.edu/wiki/index.php/Early_Childhood_Education

Other libraries have used blogs to create and maintain subject guides. Plymouth State University in New Hampshire is using Scriblio, which is a customized version of the WordPress blogging software for their subject guides as well as their library OPAC. Here is an example of their Graphic Design Subject Guide Built using Scriblio: http://library.plymouth.edu/by-subject/graphic-design