I have a link on the side bar to the photos I found but it didn't make an image. I am not quite sure why.
I will write more about this later.
Later (edited 4/3/08).....I went to Big Huge Lab --the mosaic link and then brought up the html from the previously constructed sidebar element which had the flickr url locations of the photos I wanted to use. I set up a 3 x 3 grid and then pasted the urls into the 9 locations. This, still, just gave me a list of links to each individual photo in the side bar.
I looked some more and there was a prompt to save the mosaic (as a jpeg). After some experimentation, I realized I had to save this to my computer. When I did this, I deleted the old sidebar element and added a new one which was a picture rather than an html and voila, got the mosaic!!!
Efolio:
I use efolio to author the library only website, http://library.project.mnscu.edu
Thank goodness for efolio! Site hosting and updating is problematic in our organization and I can always get into efolio and make updates and edits to the library website and don't have to depend on anyone else or any other software!!! It has been a totally wonderful thing to have access to this for the library website.
I also previously looked at the other tools such as the slideshows but each of them had some drawbacks. In some of the teaching I do, anything that I can use that would not require students to have to have particular software to see the images is a good tool.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Non linear accomplishment of things: Thing 14 (LibraryThing)
LibraryThing is not new to me. Over a year ago, I set up an account...but I'll be darned if I can remember what the username or password were! Luckily, my recollection is that I didn't put a lot of books into it!
Over the past weekend, I spent a great deal of time on LibraryThing for a personal blog I have started as a result of 23 Things.
I learned then that, contrary to another online universe that I have been spending time with, LibraryThing considers 2-word phrases as whole tags (that other place considers each word separated by a space as a separate tag). LibraryThing notices the end of a tag (when there are several) by the insertion of a comma when you are tagging. I learned this the hard way since I put a random books (book covers) widget into my personal blog and had to edit most of the tags on the close to 40 books I had put in to get the subset of the ones I wanted to show up.
How would we use LibraryThing here in the library? Well, we could put the covers up of our newest books. Right now we have a New Books list that we publish on the website quarterly after we receive it from OCLC. It would be additional work to add these items to LibraryThing and a certain number of them won't have covers already in LibraryThing. For the 5 books I put in, two of them have covers that are images I grabbed from the publisher's website.
At this point, I didn't put the link in the random covers to link to "my LibraryThing" since there are only 5 books in it.
I am just not sure whether this is something that would be good for us or not? Maybe rather than linking such a display to our blog, it would make sense to insert it into our web site. I don't know how many patrons will look at the blog as opposed to the website?
I must admit, however, that I really do like the covers feature of LibraryThing as it appeals to visual people.
Over the past weekend, I spent a great deal of time on LibraryThing for a personal blog I have started as a result of 23 Things.
I learned then that, contrary to another online universe that I have been spending time with, LibraryThing considers 2-word phrases as whole tags (that other place considers each word separated by a space as a separate tag). LibraryThing notices the end of a tag (when there are several) by the insertion of a comma when you are tagging. I learned this the hard way since I put a random books (book covers) widget into my personal blog and had to edit most of the tags on the close to 40 books I had put in to get the subset of the ones I wanted to show up.
How would we use LibraryThing here in the library? Well, we could put the covers up of our newest books. Right now we have a New Books list that we publish on the website quarterly after we receive it from OCLC. It would be additional work to add these items to LibraryThing and a certain number of them won't have covers already in LibraryThing. For the 5 books I put in, two of them have covers that are images I grabbed from the publisher's website.
At this point, I didn't put the link in the random covers to link to "my LibraryThing" since there are only 5 books in it.
I am just not sure whether this is something that would be good for us or not? Maybe rather than linking such a display to our blog, it would make sense to insert it into our web site. I don't know how many patrons will look at the blog as opposed to the website?
I must admit, however, that I really do like the covers feature of LibraryThing as it appeals to visual people.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Thing 7: Web Communication Tools
Newish, newerish, newest - or maybe old, medium, and right now? That's how I think about some of these communication tools.
Today I attended a very good presentation by John O'Brien, VP of Academic Affairs at Century College who reiterated that today's 19 year old college students don't email so much as they IM or text message. I have seen this in people related to me.
Here's the dilemma we keep confronting over and over when thinking about these tools in regard to our own library. ....the percent of typical 19 year old college students who use us is only one segment. We have very technology savvy students and many non traditional students (some of whom have no computer skills) who cover a wide age range. What percent of our core users are using these tools????
Our use of email: we are so dependent upon it that we have almost stopped talking with each other, a hazard.
Our use of IM: it has been used as an intergroup communication tool, rather than one that we have opened to the public. It is the only way we often can get a response from one of our group members who is outstate, and this is not a millenial! If we ever set up an IM type "Ask Us" Meebo would be good since it could enable anyone from different IM products to interact with us.
Text messaging: who would pay for this? We don't have cell phones in the library. I don't do text messaging on a personal level either due to the cost. Yes, yes, we know that the newest research says that the thing that people of a certain age could not live without would be their cell phones, above their computers. The video demonstration of a student texting a librarian (is this in a library) puzzles. Is there some reason a face to face question is bad?
Webinars: wonderful! We "attend" them all the time for training. Time saver and money saver. Almost as good as sliced bread.
Twitter. I watched the videos. I understand that if you are at a giant conference with many venues like ALA it could be good if a bunch of people all have texting or iPhones or Blackberries and could use it to set up meeting after sessions for dinner. Otherwise, I don't get it nor its extensions. I am trying to figure out why anyone would use it.
Again, feeling overwhelmed by all the technology possibilities in Web 2.0. It is up to us all to pick and choose wisely given that there is only so much that can be monitored at once and also for us to produce quality accurate work.
Today I attended a very good presentation by John O'Brien, VP of Academic Affairs at Century College who reiterated that today's 19 year old college students don't email so much as they IM or text message. I have seen this in people related to me.
Here's the dilemma we keep confronting over and over when thinking about these tools in regard to our own library. ....the percent of typical 19 year old college students who use us is only one segment. We have very technology savvy students and many non traditional students (some of whom have no computer skills) who cover a wide age range. What percent of our core users are using these tools????
Our use of email: we are so dependent upon it that we have almost stopped talking with each other, a hazard.
Our use of IM: it has been used as an intergroup communication tool, rather than one that we have opened to the public. It is the only way we often can get a response from one of our group members who is outstate, and this is not a millenial! If we ever set up an IM type "Ask Us" Meebo would be good since it could enable anyone from different IM products to interact with us.
Text messaging: who would pay for this? We don't have cell phones in the library. I don't do text messaging on a personal level either due to the cost. Yes, yes, we know that the newest research says that the thing that people of a certain age could not live without would be their cell phones, above their computers. The video demonstration of a student texting a librarian (is this in a library) puzzles. Is there some reason a face to face question is bad?
Webinars: wonderful! We "attend" them all the time for training. Time saver and money saver. Almost as good as sliced bread.
Twitter. I watched the videos. I understand that if you are at a giant conference with many venues like ALA it could be good if a bunch of people all have texting or iPhones or Blackberries and could use it to set up meeting after sessions for dinner. Otherwise, I don't get it nor its extensions. I am trying to figure out why anyone would use it.
Again, feeling overwhelmed by all the technology possibilities in Web 2.0. It is up to us all to pick and choose wisely given that there is only so much that can be monitored at once and also for us to produce quality accurate work.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
a provoking article about web 2.0 (thing 2)
Minitex just sent out a link to this article by a librarian from Gustavus.
http://insidehighered.com/views/2008/02/18/fister
It and the comments (at least as of 2:56 p.m. on 2/21/08) are worth reading.
It brings points that I too have been wondering about
--free information, free access, but what is the real price....who is cacheing the data about what we click on and what are they going to do with it
--protecting one's identity online. I think we need more guidelines and 23 Things could be a place to do this.
--all the issues with intellectual property and journal access etc.
--librarians and libraries as the purveyors and protectors of our information access rights.
http://insidehighered.com/views/2008/02/18/fister
It and the comments (at least as of 2:56 p.m. on 2/21/08) are worth reading.
It brings points that I too have been wondering about
--free information, free access, but what is the real price....who is cacheing the data about what we click on and what are they going to do with it
--protecting one's identity online. I think we need more guidelines and 23 Things could be a place to do this.
--all the issues with intellectual property and journal access etc.
--librarians and libraries as the purveyors and protectors of our information access rights.
Thing 5
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Here is the URL http://metaatem.net/words/
These mashups are interesting and something that I never knew about before either.
Indeed, some of them are endless sops of time. I just HAD to try the visual Suduko which is hard if the color value of some of the images is similar.
I am not sure how these would be useful to our library, though I could see doing a collage of photos. However, I couldn't try this out yet with this post since I don't have enough photos loaded yet and the place to do this wanted yet ANOTHER registration and I fear the ability to keep track of so many passwords, as I have mentioned before.
Gaak! In the preview of this post, the words fit across without breaking up. It must be the constraints of the design template I am using but I don't understand which things in the html of that template I need to change to make the body of it wider. Help...does anyone know how to do this???
Here is
Here is
Here is the URL http://metaatem.net/words/
These mashups are interesting and something that I never knew about before either.
Indeed, some of them are endless sops of time. I just HAD to try the visual Suduko which is hard if the color value of some of the images is similar.
I am not sure how these would be useful to our library, though I could see doing a collage of photos. However, I couldn't try this out yet with this post since I don't have enough photos loaded yet and the place to do this wanted yet ANOTHER registration and I fear the ability to keep track of so many passwords, as I have mentioned before.
Gaak! In the preview of this post, the words fit across without breaking up. It must be the constraints of the design template I am using but I don't understand which things in the html of that template I need to change to make the body of it wider. Help...does anyone know how to do this???
Friday, February 8, 2008
Book Stacks....thing 4
Here it is....however, it is not coming over from uploading in blogger with the pop up note?
I just looked at St.Bens/St.Johns...it appears that their photos with popup notes aren't in their library blog or library website either....just on their Flickr account????
It would be really cool to be able to import such thing into a library blog and/or library web site? IS it possible???
I just looked at St.Bens/St.Johns...it appears that their photos with popup notes aren't in their library blog or library website either....just on their Flickr account????
It would be really cool to be able to import such thing into a library blog and/or library web site? IS it possible???
more Thing 4: What a GREAT IDEA.. or maybe not...see the post that is above this one
After looking at what St. Johns and St. Bens libraries are doing with photos with links to their catalogs, I am full of ideas on using this to connect with our library users!
(Edited..see post above this one...there may be no way to get the photo with the pop up link into one's blog and/or website...maybe it only pops up in Flickr?? If so, not what I want to do)
So, had to figure out how to add a note that will pop up upon mousing over the photo. This is easy...just click on the Add A Note icon above your photo.
Then, how to make it link...well that is html. Couldn't remember the syntax:
Just to get the line to show the actual code above was a challenge! Since Blogger is an html editor itself, if you put in the code, it just changes to a highlighted link. I had to copy the code from another source and put it into a picture editor (used Fireworks)and save it as a .png image and then edit it to a better size in some MS picture editor and then upload it as no format and move the code in the blog entry to where I wanted it!
Now I want to show you the photo!
(Edited..see post above this one...there may be no way to get the photo with the pop up link into one's blog and/or website...maybe it only pops up in Flickr?? If so, not what I want to do)
So, had to figure out how to add a note that will pop up upon mousing over the photo. This is easy...just click on the Add A Note icon above your photo.
Then, how to make it link...well that is html. Couldn't remember the syntax:
Just to get the line to show the actual code above was a challenge! Since Blogger is an html editor itself, if you put in the code, it just changes to a highlighted link. I had to copy the code from another source and put it into a picture editor (used Fireworks)and save it as a .png image and then edit it to a better size in some MS picture editor and then upload it as no format and move the code in the blog entry to where I wanted it!
Now I want to show you the photo!
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