Week 4

The Pollak Library Flickr site is a nice way to keep a central spot for pictures for all the different events that take place in the library. It was interesting to see the current pictures at the library's Flickr site such as the earthquake damage and the READ poster ceremony/event. The fact that different users can add to the group of pictures makes it convenient in that not one person has to be responsible for gathering and maintaining information about the library events.

For our community, images could provide a useful way to show what the library is all about. As an example, when I was at the Reference Desk, a patron asked me where more computers were located. I mentioned the computer lab in the basement and the patron responded, "I'll have to check it out, I've never been down there." With the use of images on the website or elsewhere, it could spark patrons' and the community's interest to further explore the library.

To get you interested in ILL, here is a picture of "Ryan the Birthday Unicorn". If you come by ILL, you surely get to see Ryan and, if it happens to be your birthday...you'll even be in for a better treat!

Week 3 Question

Can you think of any way that using RSS feeds might help the Pollak Library communicate with our community?
RSS feeds would seem to be a definite help in communicating to the library community general information about the library such as: scheduled open hours, classes, and events. Also, ILLiad has the potential to us RSS feeds. The next update of ILLiad should have a greater capability to use RSS feeds to alert ILLiad users about ILL policies, changes, and interesting features of their ILLiad account. The ability to quickly notify the library community in a convenient manner seems to be a positive aspect of RSS feeds.

Library 2.0 Technology

Lots of cool stuff to learn and do!