Sunday, July 10, 2011

RSS Feed Annotated Biblography

Librarians, 2011, *Librarians Mater BLogger RSS Feed,* viewed 8th July, 2011, http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrariansMatter

Is a blog about a teacher librarian named Kathryn Greenhill and her works and studies through her carrier. Quite instructive on emerging web 2.0 technology as well as the over all industry overview, It does tend to variant of subject at some points but they mostly valid and precise usually going of topic to explain abbreviations and so forth. It is an an authrotive blog for its information and many demonstrations, help with abbreviations and information on Web 2.0 tech.


View on RSS Feeds:

My personal view on Rss feeds is they are quite fiddly, I learnt about them several years ago and really never caught on to liking them, sure they give us updates, but again personally I'd prefer to just go to the web site it self every now and then and check for updates.

Rss feeds within a library are a good thing for clients and staff alike, it helps keep track of a number of blogs, wikis, forums and so forth, it helps ensure easy access and back access at a client or staff members request. It also helps with updates with news and feed back to certain postings which are easily found with RSS feeds since most store and index posts for you.


Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Technorati and Anotated Citation of a Library Blog

Today's lesson consited of creating and signing up to a couple of library based blogs as well as looking at technorati and igoogle web pages. As you can see previously I have posted a few things from last year and will be using bits and peices of information from previous posts including citations.

Technorati: http://technorati.com/

With technorati I did a search for emerging 2.0 technology and came up with a few interesting blogs but the one that caught my eye was called The Unquiet Librarian

Technorati is an intresting blog searching tool used for finding blogs of certain levels of authority depending on how you search and refine your information giving you access to literally thousands of blogs of different types from children's blogs for fun and humor, to professional blogs used for day to day access for buisnesses.

Annotated Citation 1:

B. Hamilton, 2010, The Unquiet Librarian, viewed 8th of March, 2010,
http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/

The Unquiet Librarian is a blog made by Buffy Hamilton who is a teacher librarian at Creekview High School in Georgia. She uses what spare time and some work time to create this blog about several different aspects of what it is to be a Librarian these days and time, going in to very detailed posts about web 2.0 and Library 2.0 applications and technologies, giving the goods the bads and the in-betweens, giving personal and professional information and thoughts. It is encouraged on the blog to throw down your own oppions and thoughts as well as information in what libraries you may work in.
The blog it self goes into detail about how libraries around the world are constantly changing and is a must for people with a keen interest in 2.0 technologies and different aspects of an ever changing library.