week 3 Flickr

Hi fellow bloggers,
Flickr has been a lot of fun. So far this has been the area most like a black hole for me - so much to explore and so many places to lose hours of time so Kontrol* and restraint have been part of the experience.

So what am I doing writing this at 4 o'clock on Friday before Xmas? nuts huh..... I spent a lot of time exploring the other flickr searchers on the pandia site, CompFight and FlickrStorm thanks to Chloe and Kate, which were fantastic fun to play with and gave far more interesting and varied results to Flickr itself. Creative Commons is really valuable for us as library staff and web 2.0 officianados if we were to utilise images in training IL and on the catalogue. Mash ups were illuminating - I had the thought of redesigning our entire catalogue just for starters (ha ha)

Scenario - imagine the catalogue screen horizontally divided in two. Top half visually represents book spines on virtual shelves in call number order. Scroll your mouse over the spine and the face of the book flips forward in the centre of the display with actual cover displayed. You will get a call number order visual and virtual browse of the shelves according to location or with locations mashed together as they are now, whichever you prefer. The bottom half of the screen shows all the metadata and catalogue info associated with the item on display including request and hold options plus status etc etc. This is where search fields will be available. Looks really good, functions well. My dream catalogue. You may even create maps and webs of items linked by subject. So many possibilities!!!!

Anyhow, I did not have many pics on my work PC so I've uploaded just a few things - my twin toddlers Miles and Audrey, my favourite people. Feel free to post comments and give feedback. I love this blog thang!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33478752@N04/

Cheers and Happy Christmas, Bloggerena / Scitech

RSS should be called 'today on a page'

Hiya scribblers and tappers,
thanks for the lesson in RSS - what a breeze it really is. I am excited about all of this. The little video was excellent and clear and as I was already registered for google reader, as you all are, it was just a matter of adding URLs I want to subscribe to. I went to my regular stuff related to music, news and events, visual arts etc and had a question regarding facebook if anyone can answer it - is it possible to receive RSS feeds of friend's updates like it is possible with Flickr?

That's it for today. Tomorrow I might try adding some comments to your blogs and maybee putting up some pics of my kids (how exciting for y'all.)

Irena / Scitech, prima bloggerina.

Here I am....Finally

Hiya all,
Here it is, our last blogger to jump in and get started. Sorry for the delay but I was away last week and back just yesterday. I'll be doing my bloggin later in the week as these are the days I work. I am very excited to be doing this, and somewhat apprehensive, like I can see some of you are too. I ought to be down with all of this but alas, admit I need the training more than anyone. Thanks for the chance to bite this bullet. Irena / Scitech