Comments on: Are your sources relevant? Are you ? http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/ It is and we do. Musing, enthusing, libraries, emerging technologies, balancing, being mum. Mon, 21 May 2012 01:52:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: LizS http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-35180 LizS Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:16:53 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/#comment-35180 About Librarians who don't want to know about Web 2 stuff - in my experience at a public library service on the east coast, it's not the librarians who are blocking the sites. It's the IT PEOPLE!!! Those that run the IT department won't let us use Youtube, Facebook etc, or use Delicious tags, and more (that I haven't even tried to try). In part there are serious bandwidth considerations - the council has not got the grunt yet to allow a staff of 500-1000 to be using these web pages/services, and in part due to security concerns (firewalls etc). To some extent these are reasonable restrictions in a budget conscious world, but it once again pushes sit back onto a few individuals (in their own time at home most likely) to get up and running with ideas for new stuff in our own workplace. The other push back I am experiencing is that everyone is tooooo busy just running the library to shift to new ways of doing things. and in our case, there is a priority on running arts/literacy grant type projects that fall under the "community engagement" banner, making the library a focus as a safe welcoming community place for people, rather than shaping itself as an infomration technology house. at this stage I think it takes all types. LIZ About Librarians who don’t want to know about Web 2 stuff – in my experience at a public library service on the east coast, it’s not the librarians who are blocking the sites. It’s the IT PEOPLE!!! Those that run the IT department won’t let us use Youtube, Facebook etc, or use Delicious tags, and more (that I haven’t even tried to try).

In part there are serious bandwidth considerations – the council has not got the grunt yet to allow a staff of 500-1000 to be using these web pages/services, and in part due to security concerns (firewalls etc).

To some extent these are reasonable restrictions in a budget conscious world, but it once again pushes sit back onto a few individuals (in their own time at home most likely) to get up and running with ideas for new stuff in our own workplace.

The other push back I am experiencing is that everyone is tooooo busy just running the library to shift to new ways of doing things. and in our case, there is a priority on running arts/literacy grant type projects that fall under the “community engagement” banner, making the library a focus as a safe welcoming community place for people, rather than shaping itself as an infomration technology house.

at this stage I think it takes all types.

LIZ

]]> By: Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-35051 Kathryn Greenhill Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:55:42 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/#comment-35051 Anne. Yes...it is amazing... and it's also wonderful how twitter can extend your personal/professional support network to include people you would never be in touch with otherwise. Anne. Yes…it is amazing… and it’s also wonderful how twitter can extend your personal/professional support network to include people you would never be in touch with otherwise.

]]> By: Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-35023 Kathryn Greenhill Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:26:18 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/#comment-35023 Hi Jo. Really interesting question about what I'd say to librarians who don't know about these types of new sites either because they don't know, aren't interested, actively see them as irrelevant or have sites like this blocked at their place of work. I'll think about it and come up with a post in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for a something interesting to mull over. Hi Jo. Really interesting question about what I’d say to librarians who don’t know about these types of new sites either because they don’t know, aren’t interested, actively see them as irrelevant or have sites like this blocked at their place of work. I’ll think about it and come up with a post in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for a something interesting to mull over.

]]> By: Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-35022 Kathryn Greenhill Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:20:26 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/#comment-35022 Hi Sue. I have trouble keeping up with RSS feeds from (relatively) infrequently updated blogs. I do have a tweet scan feed on "sirexcat" because people often reply to me with this misspelling and find it really useful. I don't think I could regularly check a tweetscan feed without my head exploding, but can understand how something like a track on Edublogs would be really useful for your Edublogging gig. Hi Sue. I have trouble keeping up with RSS feeds from (relatively) infrequently updated blogs. I do have a tweet scan feed on “sirexcat” because people often reply to me with this misspelling and find it really useful. I don’t think I could regularly check a tweetscan feed without my head exploding, but can understand how something like a track on Edublogs would be really useful for your Edublogging gig.

]]> By: Anne Mirtschin http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-34850 Anne Mirtschin Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:09:31 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/#comment-34850 Hi Kathryn Thanks for the meme passionquilt tag. Will work on that over the weekend. Just a further comment to the earthquake in London. I happened to quickly check my emails at the beginning of school lunchtime and was rather askance that my son in London had just sent me an email, knowing full well it was the early hours of the morning for him. Wondering what was wrong, I read his email, which stated that having retired to bed late, he was about to go to sleep, and felt his whole house shake (He lives at the top of a shop in and old building in Putney. He thought it had been an earthquake and was about to check the bbc news on his laptop). This information age we live in and the conceptual age we are about to enter, is rather amazing in that information can be sent around the world in a matter of minutes. Twitter is also adding to this fabulous age. Hi Kathryn Thanks for the meme passionquilt tag. Will work on that over the weekend. Just a further comment to the earthquake in London. I happened to quickly check my emails at the beginning of school lunchtime and was rather askance that my son in London had just sent me an email, knowing full well it was the early hours of the morning for him. Wondering what was wrong, I read his email, which stated that having retired to bed late, he was about to go to sleep, and felt his whole house shake (He lives at the top of a shop in and old building in Putney. He thought it had been an earthquake and was about to check the bbc news on his laptop). This information age we live in and the conceptual age we are about to enter, is rather amazing in that information can be sent around the world in a matter of minutes. Twitter is also adding to this fabulous age.

]]> By: Jo Beazley http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-34847 Jo Beazley Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:30:51 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/#comment-34847 Hey there Kathryn, really enjoy reading your posts. LOL at your funny elbow picture!! Was wondering how the concept of twitter etc can be applied to public libraries/librarians where access to these sort of sites is totally denied. Are we creating some sort of divide amongst us as librarians? (only one more year of study and I can call myself this!) How can we provide information if we don't have access to it? What comments would you make to librarians who are opposed to the notion of Library 2.0 and its associated social network sites? For some librarians many of the terms you blogged about would be totally alien and have no relevance to them. Would love you to blog about this concept sometime if you have any answers. Hey there Kathryn, really enjoy reading your posts. LOL at your funny elbow picture!!

Was wondering how the concept of twitter etc can be applied to public libraries/librarians where access to these sort of sites is totally denied. Are we creating some sort of divide amongst us as librarians? (only one more year of study and I can call myself this!) How can we provide information if we don’t have access to it?

What comments would you make to librarians who are opposed to the notion of Library 2.0 and its associated social network sites? For some librarians many of the terms you blogged about would be totally alien and have no relevance to them.

Would love you to blog about this concept sometime if you have any answers.

]]> By: Sue Waters http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-34830 Sue Waters Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:37:40 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/02/27/are-your-sources-relevant-are-you/#comment-34830 I've now got to the point that, for the information I am after, TweetScan is providing me with the most incredible resources. Obviously it all relates back to what search term you are using - but I'm tracking edublogs so am being alerted to so much excellent information as it happens. This morning trialled an Edublogs forum because I saw a tweet about someone adding it to their blog - plus engaged in a conversation about digital story telling and embedding audios into blog posts. Sure I'm not capturing it all since some have their accounts locked - but what I am getting are gems. Also still using Terraminds as well - since TweetScan had a problem last week - but the feed name is much better with TweetScan. I’ve now got to the point that, for the information I am after, TweetScan is providing me with the most incredible resources.

Obviously it all relates back to what search term you are using – but I’m tracking edublogs so am being alerted to so much excellent information as it happens. This morning trialled an Edublogs forum because I saw a tweet about someone adding it to their blog – plus engaged in a conversation about digital story telling and embedding audios into blog posts.

Sure I’m not capturing it all since some have their accounts locked – but what I am getting are gems. Also still using Terraminds as well – since TweetScan had a problem last week – but the feed name is much better with TweetScan.

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