Another one - Wiki

Week 5: Wikis

There are just so many ways to make a library useful and resourceful, aren't there? Blogs, flicker, RSS features, etc,... you name it. And here comes another one - Wiki. To think that any staff member can contribute to Wiki painlessly, how nice!

Book group lovers can get involved as well just like Book Lovers Wiki at the Princeton Public Library. Patron can use library Wiki search for information as well as to be directed to library's own on-line catalogue if needed, or view all the service library offered. the full Library Success: A best practices wiki is a good example. Bravo!

Guess in the end of day with so many existing ways out there we'll just need to work out which one serves the best in the interest of library.

Libraries benefit from RSS

Week 4: RSS

Eventually I successfully decided which 5 RSS should be added in for me. I can't help to think how easy to get access to any information we are interested these days. It's just amazing. I had a look of ABC news and it has such a broad range of information sorted in categories. How good is that? With RSS features a library can easily have its own account and add some RSS entirely based on customer's focus such as Health, Science and Technology and Sports, etc,... especially those information updated so quickly that books published can never meet up that kind of speed. I can already see how much RSS features will benefit students with their study researches and school assignments. No wonder these days when students come into library looking for information not only they want books, but also for on line resources too. They have to list all the resources entries including the databases they used in their home work. So to get very much involved in this kind of on line strategies in order to keep up with clients needs is a must for libraries. We've got so much to do, haven't we?