Exercise 8: Cureent Awareness

The ABDS 


This seems like a very efficient system that should make finding books easier for library clients. If the books stored in the ABDS are kept in airtight containers they will probably last longer too.

The only major problem I can see is that this system limits the amount of books that can be removed at a time, which may result in crowding.

Exercise 7: Podcasts

Below is a link to the video podcast from the library of sydney. This podcast is about an early map of Australia made by an explorer named Tasman with the podcast itself being called "Tasman Map".

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/podcasts/videos/tasman_map.html

Exercise 6: Social Bookmarking

I believe that allow library users to rate and review books is useful idea. It allows other users of the library to find out what other people think of particularly books and use this as effective bottom-up way of evaluating item quality and provides a way of seeing if other library users are interested in the item.

I believe it is in the best interest of libraries to make this tool available because of the great benefits it provides to their clients.

My local library uses this service to a limited extent. Library users can review book and search by review but reviews are otherwise not automatically displayed.

Exercise 5: If you are a Facebook member you might like to join the “Libraries are important” site.

Why Libraries Should choose another formation over social networking sites

I do not believe that engaging in social networking websites is of value to a library. Social networking sites are not a format that is more useful to libraries that a webpage of their own or an account on other websites such as youtube. Being involved on a social networking site does allow members with library cards to be involved with the library that way, but it also opens the doors for the more frivolous silly commends and 'who has the most friends' games that such sites can promote.

The various other formats however allow for equally efficient communication using email without any of the downside. Additionally their layout and content can be customised to a far greater degree that most social networking sites, allowing information to be more readily found and interlinked. While sites like youtube can be useful to helping the library interact with clients, social networking sites do not.

Therefore while involvement with social networking sites can allow libraries to reach clients, I do not view the use of social networking sites as useful strategy as the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Most library clients would not be interested in joining and the promotion of silliness outweighs the benefits of the small scale client-library discourse that may take place.

Exercise 4: Youtube

For this exercise I searched youtube for a entertaining videoclip that provides information about some of the most scenic libraries in the world. I like the way the music works with the pictures. While t he subtitles however are less that optimal the pictures are wonderful.

24/04/1993

This my first blog post ever.

I should start by introducing myself. My name is William Killinngly as can be seen. I am interest in a number of things that overlap in the area of worldbuilding which is one of my hobbies and will hopefully will be the topic of this first blog series.

I intend for this series of blogposts to act as Sci-Fi Worldbuilding series titled the Second Fleet which will be inspired by realistic evpsych, transhumanism and realistic biological evolution in place of the usual failures of rubber forehead aliens in the style of Star Wars or Star Strek. This will act as the opposite of Larry Nivens known space which is biologically implausible but pays homage to the laws of physics.

Above: Human Aliens are far less realistic than faster than light travel.

My current plans are to have faster than light travel and set in a distant galaxy utterly out of touch with the rest of the universe to avoid treading on the toes of other science fiction. I will feature non-human aliens inspired by game theory and the "Deadly Probe Hypothesis" instead of other humans with funny foreheads. I will try to play with transhumanism while keeping humanity human so they can be relatable. And as a reaction to science fiction where everyone is white, no-one will be white.

I shall call this setting the "Second Fleet" and will be about the Second Fleet that arrives in isolated Galaxy visited only once before by a first fleet, only to find to the empty ruins built by the first fleet and other things living their.

For my next post I will attempt to construct a plausible human culture that continues to exist when transhumanist and virtual reality are widespread an easy and focus on what a human society with Science Fiction technology would actually looklike.

Hopefully someone will be interested in seeing how this turns out,
William Killingly

Exercise Three

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dublincitypubliclibraries/373898623/

The link above is an image uploaded by the Dublin Public Libraries. It shows what the Rathmines public library looks like and in the description below the picture details it address.

The picture is of a beautiful red brick building with a roof and supports of weather grey stone. It has stone railings on the roof, a pair of classical columns and minor architectural decoration. To show scale there are bicycles chained to the surrounding metal fence and a pedestrian is shown walking by.

Excercise II: Multimedia and Libraries

Nowadays various forms of technology are increasingly interconnected and young people readily use this interconnectivity to change media depending on which format best serves their needs.

A knoweledge of various multimedia formats and their interconnectivity is vital to librarians as it allows them to best supply their clients with information in the largest possible variety of formats.

Transmedia is a related phenomenone where serial works link together their works in various formats. This can range from using mobile phones to vote on reality tv shows and placing move trailers on Youtube , to using the internet to build up interest in the work (e.g. The Dark Knight" virtual easter egg hunt)  having a continous work in multiple formats (e.g. an animated series with comic book parts) or even a wider franchise (e.g. Transformers; Disney).

As such a knowledge of transmedia may be critical for a library worker to help assist clients uncover all the information they are looking for, as the work may be in a different media format than the client expects or the various pieces of the work may each be in a different format.

And if transmedia becomes as prevalent as the following slideshow predicts it will


<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_7192229"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jwtintelligence/f-transmedia-rising-presentationslideshare-version030811" title="Transmedia Rising (March 2011)" target="_blank">Transmedia Rising (March 2011)</a></strong> <iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/7192229?rel=0" width="425" height="355" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> <div style="padding:5px 0 12px"> View more presentations from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jwtintelligence" target="_blank">JWTIntelligence</a> </div> </div>