Loading a photograph onto my Blog.

Yay I can do it and this photo is from a creative commons website too... yee haa

it's time to bring out the fireworks.

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Searching Using Tagged sites.

I have checked out some of these social networking tagged sites. Looking at their search results. So far I like the look of delicious, all the others seem to try and emulate Google but don't seem to be as fast or efficient. Though I do like the visual side of Kartoo.com looks good and makes it easy to see significant results.

So there is Three powerful search engines I like;

www.google.com
www.del.icio.us
www.kartoo.com

Google Todo List incoming.

Sweet looks like Google are developing there own todo list which will be an excellent addition to the powerful toolkit that they already provide. This post confirms that I am upto Thing 8.

23 Things with Kathryn Greenhill.

Ok so I started this blog as I have been assigned as a mentor in the 23 Things project. This means that anyone at the Peel Campus Library that needs help with the various technologies that are being looked at come to me for help. So far everyone seems upto the task mind you a lot of the projects we are looking at I have already mentioned to the staff and we have had a wiki up and running since last year. However it will be interesting to see what some of the other social networking systems are like that we explore later on.

My ramblings on Library Information Technology (Sounds exciting doesn't it?).

Wow here I am. An I.T. Officer writing a blog on Information Technology in Libraries - who would of thought ?

So I am thinking this could be a good place to write down my thoughts and feelings of what I am currently experiencing at the Library I am working at.

First a little bit about where I work. Peel Campus Library in Mandurah Western Australia. The Library's Patrons come from Murdoch University, Mandurah Senior Campus and Challenger Tafe, all three organisations have their own buildings and staff on site. Our patrons are the staff and students, close to 3000. From what I can tell (looking at other libraries) our library is reasonably advanced, we have lots of technical resources and our Library manager is always looking into getting new stuff to keep the Library up to date.

Resources: We have about 25,000 Monographs, 70 odd computers, a couple of Colour Laser Printer/copier/scanner's, Seminar Room with Projector, Digital Projectors, Digital Camera's, MP3 Players, Laptops, Smartboard etc.

We also provide an excellent digital resource to our Patrons and Mandurah Senior Campus it's called Clickview. Basically all our videos are stored on a server and can be watched with a click of the mouse in the Library or on any computer in Mandurah Senior Campus. We currently have more than 2000 vids / Learning objects loaded onto the Clickview server at the moment.

So what do I do.....

Ok I am classified as an I.T. Officer. I make sure all the computers in the library are working smoothly. I support the staff and patrons with all their I.T. needs. I help patrons with their study and work. Train teachers and staff on new technologies. Research new technologies. Create digital resources - screencasts, learning objects etc. So far I have been here for nearly two years and it has been fun.