Assignment 6: Library 2.0

At last, I’m catching up with myself!
I wanted to raise my thoughts about the implications of the technological trends on information literacy and how libraries can meet the challenges ahead.
CILIP give the definition of information literacy as
“knowing when and why you need information, where to find it, and how to evaluate, use and communicate it in an ethical [...]

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Assignment 5: Mix & Mash

I’m slowly catching up with everything again! 
I’ve heard lots of good reports about Podcasts from various sites and I must say, I’ve always been impressed by the technology of it all!  The readings this week have been very interesting and I particularly liked the idea of linking the library catalogue to Amazon to create a [...]

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Assignment 4: Wikis

A bit late with this one I’m afraid!
Very interesting reading on Wikis – I’m still sitting on the fence with this one.  Whilst I can see the potential for a library service, the cautious side of me is thinking that this will take a lot more promotion than a blog!  I think to initiate it [...]

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Assignment 3: Social Bookmarking

Well, this week has proven to have very interesting readings again!  Where to start?  In reading about social bookmarking, it gave me further ideas how I can add this into a library blog.  By highlighting relevant or subject discussion webpages to the library user, we can encourage the library user to add their comments and [...]

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