Exploring Wiki Wiking

Wikis can be such a great way to organize information for library users and library people. I took a look at the Library Success Wiki and found such interesting things. Take a look at this article http://www.mmischools.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=11534 on finding free scholarly information on the web. It is a bit old at 2006 but still lists a number of very interesting sites and has some good ideas. I have started experimenting with putting together Reference Desk Information for Librarians through pbwiki. I can tell that to really make it useful, it will take a great deal of time and I will need to encourage the Reference Desk Team to contribute. It will be an interesting experiment. cwb

Question in regard to google doc

Question in regard to google docs. There seems to be some concerns the security regarding Googel Docs. Since you invite people in...is this secure enough for most work?

Google Docs and Cloud Computing

This is a really solid idea for use in the library. I can think of all types of possibilities. First of all, this just might be the thing for the elevate ur news posters that a group of us are working on. I think I will bring it up at the next meeting.

Book Burro, Moving back to thing #6

I finished with Thing #6 (except for all my questions) and moved on to Thing #7. Here is discovered that the assignment is to create a Delicious account and learn about social bookmarking. Since I have started working with that, and am very pleased, I decided to go back to Thing #6 and explore book burro. This is a really neat feature to assist our students when out at the Reference desk looking for textbooks. I also like the Worldcat function.

Question for Will on Delicious

Will, I have been collecting websites on scores and am pleased with my growing list. The part that I do not understand is the social part. How do I start getting bookmarks from other people? I am concerned because I am not interested in adding a bunch (and there are so many out there) of websites that sell scores and I could end up with a massive (and useless list)

I have another question. Now when I go into Mozilla, on the bar along the top is a growing list of the sites which I have bookmarked. How do I get rid of them? I just wanted to bookmark the website, I didn't want to get married. :)

Now I am adding bookmarks to my delicious account.

Thangs are going better and steam is no longer coming out of my ears everytime someone mentions bookmarks. Delicious has some neat features. There is the obvious feature for Reference Librarians, saving important websites that I will refer back to. However, I could also put together a number of examples that I use in teaching classes such as problems websites, descriptions of empirical data, soceity websites. Now I need to explore the organizational function of delicious.

FireFox and delicious

I have used FireFox for some time. So I experimented with adding on a delicious account. Such a simple process until I got to typing in the word in the box. It was as long as I have ever seen and I kept getting rejected. OK, I will try the next word but each time it would erases the whole screen and I would have to type everthing in again. An exercise in frustration..........Yes, I can read the english language and eventually the program and I agreed as to what is written down there and I got the delicious account all set up.