Just wanted to say thank-you to YPRL and especially Fiona for organising the course. I've really enjoyed the experience and have learnt a lot about what is out there in web land. Like most people I'd heard of these applications but had not explored many of them. The hands-on nature of the course was very good and I now have a greater appreciation of what's involved. I found most of the applications were user-friendly and easy to set up accounts and could immediately seem like a real info. maven. I appreciate the effort of bloggers who maintain their sites year after year as posting regularly could become quite daunting.
It will be interesting to see what applications we can develop in our health library as IT blocks many of the sites (eg. Facebook, Youtube). The Wiki may come in handy once it's established and for my own use I really appreciated LibraryThing. Of course one of the main lessons I take away from the experience is how important it is that time and effort is devoted to maintaining and updating any of the Web 2.0 applications the library may employ. Thanks again for the opportunity to delve into this world.
Forever With You ♡
10 years ago
Thanks for your feedback! It really looks to me as thought you've taken a lot from the course, but mainly the fact that you're realistic about the work and commitment involved in implementing the tools into your library is the best part. I hope you find a way to include some of the tools at your work - you may just need to sit down with your IT department to make things work! All the best, Fiona
ReplyDeleteThat's a very sobering comment about commiting to updating whatever we set up as tools in our library work. It comes under the continuous improvement umbrella with things such as weeding the book collection of old stuff, updating our holdings of industry standards etc.
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