#52 clipping clipping

Clipping just another information management tool it could present a real danger of taking bits out of context.I can already do this with Grazer in a more organised and complete fashion, care must be taken with this tool that you do not loose the references if information is to be used for any serious study.
I found a you tube video ( see side bar) that will challenge your place and relevance as a (information provider,organizer, facilitator, knowledge manager) not only can we find information but it can find us. Three tags, three places, instantly ,all is miscellaneous

#51Social web

How much is too much ? Library of congress photos appeared to create a storm of response, where to go with this?
Connection speed will be very important(the three clicks rule etc) younger users are joined at the hip (wrist?) to their phones so services need to target this tool . The speed of change in technology may be an impediment, just when you get set up the rules will change. How can organisations face the necessary costs involved? will it mean the end of the free public library and a move as so many things are now toward user pays. How will this sit with a goal of providing information access to all?
Se Chan(“Social media, social networking - learning from libraries, the new
OCLC report,”) suggests it will be very messy but that we should open the doors to user created input in the library but that it will be "right on mission"privacy rules will need to be opened up He disagrees with the OCLC research that

strongly challenges the assumption that libraries should copy social media services on their own sites, and instead recommends that libraries open up for users to make use of content in their own ways on other services. Participation on library sites will be low.

Competition is high and the messy approach will be the norm there is a push for libraries to reinvent themselves from suppliers of information and providing access, into creators . Watch this space.

#50 Hold the cheese

Cooking in libraries? or is it the community site idea that is relevant here? a group of like minded people with a passion who forgive little mistakes because they all have the same interest.
Lasagna all ways intimidated me with all the different cheeses, but Bill and Daves version complete with oil spatters on the lens of the camera and the bottle of Chianti (that was consumed during the making of it I kept wondering when they were going to add it) made it all seem so much more approachable.
That is the value of this homey type of video a non threatening demo that anyone can relate to. A too technically perfect style may not be the way to go.
However the site does give tips on how to create more professionally and links to tools that can convert different video files. Small videos can be created with a digital camera ( and tripod for steadiness)and windows movie maker a free download if not already on your computer.

#49 Sounds scary

Soundsnap Ok I know sounds are the go with mobile phone ring tones going off all over the library (I liked it when we had a group of Irish backpackers wandering around the library little Irish fiddles and ballads would suddenly erupt behind the ref desk) but how to make this work for us. Possible intros to book talks, EG: the crime novel so popular in Melbourne (lets not get into the why just now ,suffice to say that this city has had a colourful past and not just a long time ago, may be the intrigue of it all rubs off on the general populace) anyhow I found a chilling sound that would work a treat just before the Author talk. Perhaps a science fiction sound like" ambient tension" could be introduced into the teenage booktalks or in the sessions "about the boys"

#48 let the music run free

Here was I thinking I had made it but no ! onward ever onward Music download a good site a logical progression for new musicians and for established ones to promote new work and give out some free. I can't really see library users coming in and asking "show me the free music" but you never know. I cannot see us helping them to burn Cd's just yet but watch that space. Found some jazz from "the Shapiro project" some of this is great might just visit now and then. May just have to hunt up their albums "true colours" and "open road" May need investigating just how free is free? Can we use these samples in a public space or is it just for private enjoyment.

#47 Just Jammin

Ok, so I am on holidays . Just checking and jammin, heres a questionable creation 'GOING" from jam studio sounds a bit like lift music Not sure where we could use this tool a little catchy intro to a training guide or a local history photo collage perhaps?

#46 keeping up

Great use of Zoho by Jamie on the PLMC blog to keep up to date with tools that are constantly changing I can see we will need to be regularly checking for updates or it will get messy. Which tool do you go with?. Do you change when they do? Can you move information over if they close ? Will you lose information? ( backups backups) I like the use of the very tools we explored "zoho" to maintain currency
I see in the update that Google have added something similar to librarything to Google books but without the social aspect, the emphasis is on research not socialising although the tags and personal libraries are accessible to others.
Just an interesting aside, Kingston library have incorporated" library thing" into their public catalogue good on them, worth watching to see how the community use it.
I decided to check out one of my favourites web 2.0 tools Zotero (really useful research tool only available with Firefox browser) and yes, updates were available it now can search, upload ,link export and take snapshots of flickr ,you tube pages as well as many other formats and provide a wider range of citations. You can snap shot a web page see it within the tool highlight sections and add side notes just as you would to hard copy.