Here are my thoughts for John Seely Brown's chapter 8 in The social life of information
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Librarything vs. Shelfari
Booklovers unite! could be the catch phrase for either LibraryThing or Shelfari
Both sites basically have the same concept- to be a social media site for books. Personally I liked the layout and the ease of use that Librarything provided. It didn't seem as complicated, and editing tags was part of the loading process. For Shelfari it seemed that tag edits were afterthoughts.
I like how both sites give you a variety of options for searching for books, issn, title, author, LC or amazon! They create a community that anyone could use!
I feel that Shelfari really pushes the whole community aspect, upon sign up they can check your address book to determine if any friends are registered. They want you to connect to those you know and don't know...sort of pushing it to be a giant book group.
I find that I like LibraryThing better for general browsing and for readers advisory. The suggested books are more evident, I don't feel that I am searching for this information as I was on Shelfari.
Both sites basically have the same concept- to be a social media site for books. Personally I liked the layout and the ease of use that Librarything provided. It didn't seem as complicated, and editing tags was part of the loading process. For Shelfari it seemed that tag edits were afterthoughts.
I like how both sites give you a variety of options for searching for books, issn, title, author, LC or amazon! They create a community that anyone could use!
I feel that Shelfari really pushes the whole community aspect, upon sign up they can check your address book to determine if any friends are registered. They want you to connect to those you know and don't know...sort of pushing it to be a giant book group.
I find that I like LibraryThing better for general browsing and for readers advisory. The suggested books are more evident, I don't feel that I am searching for this information as I was on Shelfari.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
would the modern fozzie the bear say "wiki wiki"?
Check out Team Two's homework wiki!
We provide a "short" tutorial on how to use Grove Art Online's database search features.
oh and just an aside...Steve...telling a classroom of grad students not to "over-think it" is like telling a woman hanging out of airplane not to "look down" --we are gonna do it...
We provide a "short" tutorial on how to use Grove Art Online's database search features.
oh and just an aside...Steve...telling a classroom of grad students not to "over-think it" is like telling a woman hanging out of airplane not to "look down" --we are gonna do it...
Monday, July 23, 2007
Who's that....Brooown...
Chapter 5 of John Seely Brown's Social Life of Information: the spoken word.
- how can we apply the ideas of 'knowing that' and 'knowing how' to this class?
- how can we apply the ideas of 'knowing that' and 'knowing how' to this class?
- can we really apply Brenda Dervin's information seeking theories to the types of knowledge management discussed in this reading?
find out by listening to a few short minutes of Me, Korrie Rock as I discuss a few interesting concepts that piqued my interest!
find out by listening to a few short minutes of Me, Korrie Rock as I discuss a few interesting concepts that piqued my interest!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
teach a man to fish, but you can't make his horse drink water?
I agree with Hala's recent blog regarding the Brown reading where she states:
I am a huge supporter of training people via hands on methods (that is why I love Steve's classes so much). Instead of just throwing the technology out there, libraries should definitely try to offer how-to instructional sessions showing their patrons what is available at the library.
She also touched on the idea that some people are set in their ways--not willing to change with the newer technology. Keeping old (1.0?) methods available to patrons will help you to not alienate some of your customers who are not yet willing to make the technology jump.
Libraries need to know how to use and benefit from technologies by adding more
training that would make it easier for people to absorb the information
available and how the information should be used while taking into consideration
people who are hard to change.
I am a huge supporter of training people via hands on methods (that is why I love Steve's classes so much). Instead of just throwing the technology out there, libraries should definitely try to offer how-to instructional sessions showing their patrons what is available at the library.
She also touched on the idea that some people are set in their ways--not willing to change with the newer technology. Keeping old (1.0?) methods available to patrons will help you to not alienate some of your customers who are not yet willing to make the technology jump.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Twitter Search!!!
In an attempt to find just about anything to do instead of listening to the podcast - I located a search for twitter:
http://twittermap.com/search/
It is relatively primitive - but can be interesting to use. If you are looking for posts regarding a specific topic you can use it for that as well!
I love the lego heads at the top too!
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