Discussing the application of new technologies in New Zealand libraries

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Ground Floor Alterations @ Dunedin Public Libraries

From 28 May – 2 June some alterations take place on the Ground Floor of the City Library. This includes recarpeting, rearranging the layout of furniture and work on the entrance way and under the escalator. The event will be documented on the libraries Flickr account. Continue

Added by Paul Hayton on May 28, 2009 at 1:17pm — No Comments

ALIA Information Online Conference

I've just got back from the ALIA Information Online Conference in Sydney and really enjoyed it. My own website blog has a few posts from the venue with some thoughts etc. I will try to add more there and add to the Flickr group with the photos I took while over there.

www.paulhayton.co.nz

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Added by Paul Hayton on January 26, 2009 at 4:18pm — No Comments

Meredith Farkas speaking to Building Academic Library 2.0

This is a video of a keynote address Meredith Farkas gave to a conference at UC Berkeley. It is 70 minutes long but skip the first 13 or so minutes as it is just introductions. The link is at: Building Academic Library 2.0 In it she discusses a definition of library 2.0 and then gives some great tips for using web 2.0 in libraries. There are some really good ideas that are practical and doable. Continue

Added by Trish Webster on April 2, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

flickr

Had fun on flickr today just moseying around, looking at photos, leaving a few comments, adding and checking contacts etc. looked up and it was lunchtime! my my my, where does the time go? Continue

Added by librarykris on January 15, 2008 at 12:26pm — No Comments

back to reality

I went to the digital futures 2.0 summit and the national digital forum last week. Loved both of them, not entirely sure what this means for my library - I've still got to sort that out for my report. Quick thoughts...

Collaboration is the new black. No wait, sustainability is the new black.

Broadband is going to save us - if only we can keep the power on

Broadband is only an enabler, it'll be useless if we can't figure out what to do with it

I'll never be out of a

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Added by librarykris on December 4, 2007 at 8:51am — No Comments

First Post on NZLibraries2.0

Hi

What a great idea! A social network for NZ librarians with an interest in Web 2.0...

A little about Me:

I'm the Coordinator for the Curriculum Information Service (CIS) at the Christchurch Centre of the National Library of New Zealand. I manage the CIS service which provides the loan of curriculum resources to all schools in the South Island.

I am very interested in Web 2.0 (and beyond) and was on the project team and now the service management team for the… Continue

Added by John Bartlett (JB) on November 14, 2007 at 12:37pm — 1 Comment

Free rice?

Playing freerice.com

Recommendation is not to play all lunch hour but what if it takes that long to load word two?

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Added by librarykris on November 9, 2007 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

photo schmoto

rodneylibraries was informed that one of our photos had been selected for inclusion in a schmap guide http://www.schmap.com/company/about_schmap.shtml after lots of deliberation I decided not to accept because it was a photo of the back rooms at the museum. It would be a false representation of what people could see in the library. do I feel bad? yip. It would have been great publicity for our Flickr. Continue

Added by librarykris on November 5, 2007 at 9:39am — No Comments

NZ Creative Commons Framework

Did you know that New Zealand now has its very own Creative Commons framework?

The Creative Commons framework is a web based tool to give your digital online intellectual property [photo - music, video, image, art work et al] a protection beyond the normal analogue version of copyright, which essentially restricts itself to - yes you can use my stuff - no you can't. years!

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Added by Kim on October 29, 2007 at 8:58am — No Comments

Hi all

I am the circulation services librarian @ Paraparaumu library and after going to the Biblioblogging presentation @ the Lianza conference I am trying to covince the IT dept. to download free (hello) blogging and Wiki software on to our server. I knew what they would say, and they did: "use the Intranet". However, it's awful. The discussion continues - will keep you posted...

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Added by ian trim on October 26, 2007 at 10:35am — No Comments

comms conference 08

I'm working on the comms plan for LIANZA conference 2008. It's version 3. I hope to be up to versino 100 by conference time. Actually, that may be a tad unrealistic because that means 2 revisions every week. Much too much work. :) Continue

Added by librarykris on October 19, 2007 at 2:09pm — No Comments