National Library of Australia podcasts

http://www.nla.gov.au/podcasts/feeds/nla.xml this is the link to get all the podcasts directed to your google reader or bloglines. I think it is handy to keep an eye open for new information. Actually when the news finishes I think I will download this one http://www.nla.gov.au/podcasts/media/Harold-White/Shrieking-Cockatoos.mp3 it is about the Australian women gaining the right to vote and heading to Britain to help the women over there (sounds interesting to me).

Podcasting

Hmmm.  Seems simple enough. I figure I can handle itunes if I have to, I just prefer not using giant companies software that has to use lots of megabytes to update regularly. So I went to the ABC link instead and subscribed to some more feeds and am listening to the news right now, it did take a little while to download but I am on the Polytechnic network which is faster than nothing. Anyway if you would like to listen to today's news http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/audio/am/201107/20110720-am-full-program.mp3 and you too can subscribe to the daily news and get links downloaded to your googlereader or bloglines if you are ignoring that small print.

Podcasting in plain english

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMgemQahuFM youtube video explains it all

Wikis: one of today's learning sites

Very interesting tool, I can see the benefits of the collaborative effect of using wikis to brainstorm ideas. Wikipedia of course, being the most well known example. I have always had a problem with the authoritativeness of wikipedia but do use it to get to better sites so I guess it is very useful. I have a small problem with the fact that anyone can change things but I think that's why I prefer other tools such as my blog or google reader or delicious even. For library purposes however what a great way to engage clients, with new book lists, reviews, descriptions so that the catalogue ends up being sort of annotated. As a flexible student nothing is more irritating than ordering a book from the catalog then when you receive it is not what you need some sort of wiki links could get around this.

Anyway I found this site by a good old google search http://librarywikis.pbworks.com/w/page/17064487/FrontPage it looks interesting to me. Though it doesn't appear to have been updated recently at all.

Photobucket

This tag (digital image/scrapbooking) was made for me by one of my talented friends. I'm learning how to do it very slowly.

Delicious

http://www.delicious.com/meadowlea this is mine that I've had for a while, I try to remember to save my favourites/bookmarks to it so when my computer crashes I can find sites when I can't remember the url. There isn't too much to do with libraries on it but I can see I saved some things with TAFE. Obviously we were doing something to do with Learning and it was a few years back (2008) before the changeover to Polytechnic . I was meant to do 23 Things in my free time but didn't find the time. Good thing our current class is covering this and more.

Celebrate Banned Books Week

Celebrate Banned Books Week, a set by hatcher.library on Flickr.

Wonder how many I've read, banning a book makes me want to read it.

Flickr

Today I explored flickr, I have browsed it before but have been using photobucket & fotki for my personal photos for a few years.

I really liked this mashup http://www.flickr.com/photos/qthomasbower/3563420741/

This is my flickr address http://www.flickr.com/photos/meadowlea/

meadowlea's photostream

meadowlea's photostream on Flickr.

These are the photo's I added today. One is the Workplace Health & Safety Noticeboard that my class fixed for the Valley Road Polytechnic as part of our assessment. I used the map application in flickr so you should be able to find Valley Road Campus if you are ever up that way.

ALIA Job Vacancies RSS feed

This is the RSS feed for jobs listed by ALIA. I thought this a worthwhile feed to subscribe to as they probably know about up-coming jobs. Being ALIA I consider them to be an authoritative site.  (ALIA, 2011)

http://www.alia.org.au/rss/vacancies.php

ALIA. (2011, July 5). ALIAnet: LIS jobs. Retrieved July 6, 2011, from ALIA: http://www.alia.org.au/rss/vacancies.php

RSS feeds Google reader and bloglines

I now know how to add to google reader & I have subscribed to a few RSS feeds & blogs. I already get a couple on my facebook account but its good to have things in a few places for when certain places have technical difficulty. I will be adding to both google reader & bloglines so I can use either to read articles I am interested in. I picked up a couple of ALIA ones & LOC but couldn't find one for British Library though I'm sure I have them on my twitter account. I have found a few ABS ones too.

www.nla.gov.au/events

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/wmdata.nsf/activerss/mediaReleases_rss/$File/mediaReleases_rss.xml

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/wmdata.nsf/activerss/headline_rss/$File/headline_rss.xml

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/wmdata.nsf/activerss/abs_rss/$File/abs_rss.xml

http://www.alia.org.au/rss/home.php

http://www.alia.org.au/rss/vacancies.php

http://www.loc.gov/rss/

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/cfapps/xml/pr_inst.html

http://anulib.anu.edu.au/about/news/feeds.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/syndicate/topstoriesrss.xml

ALIA RSS Vacancy feed

Another little something

http://alia.org.au/rss/vacancies.php

Library of Congress blog & rss feed

I figured this would be worth following and it belongs to LOC so it should be authoritative.
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/

National Library Blog

Just a little something to read

http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/forumdisplay.php?19-Trove-Blog