Mashups

I can see the advantage of Mashups in the library, especially using something like voicethread for local historic photos. I had a good look at Voicethread and thought it was a really neat way of combining voices with digitised images.

Podcasts

I can definitely see the value of my library using podcasts for staff and patrons. One such way that it could be used would be by having our author talks that I run in the library put on to our website in the form of an ipod. That way people unable to attend on that particular day can watch and/or listen by this method.

Answer Boards

I've promised myself that I will have a "crack" at slamming the boards on the 10th of next month. This is definitely a worthwile exercise for librarians to get involved in and market ourselves. Wouldn't it be great if there was something similar for librarians to seek out answers from other librarians for certain questions.

Library Thing

My Library Thing account is:

http://www.librarything.com/home/rooallen

Library Thing will be useful for collection development and sharing knowledge about what books are out there. Should be fun to use also.