Sunday, May 31, 2015

Investigative Exercise 3. Photo sharing and Flickr

The image attached has been uploaded to Flickr by The British Library. It is a drawing titled "The Edison multipolar Dynamo" taken from page 198 of 'The United States of America. A study of the American Commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education and self-government. Dynamos were the first electrical generators to generate and deliver power for industrial use.

Investigative Exercise 2: Blogs

SLNSW eRecords Project: Journey’s end This post is the final post of The State Library of NSW eRecords blog. This blog has detailed the project's task of making the State Library's collection catalogues digitally available. This has included the creation of 1.3 million records, and applying half a million bar-codes to books. The result of this project is vastly improved and efficient access to the Library's massive collection, for both staff and clients. This is something that is both incredibly interesting, and important, as it is a meeting place between the worlds of analogue and digital research and information, and has greatly increased the library's current and future prospects in the digital age.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Investigative Exercise 1: Library 2.0

Web 2.0 refers to online websites, networks and applications that allows users to create and edit content. Web 2.0 is sometimes referred to as Social Media, or Library 2.0, and can take many different forms, but the main concept is that users provide the content. An example of a Web 2.0 platform is Facebook, which allows users to upload content such as text, links, images and videos, and comment on content uploaded by others. Libraries commonly use social media sites such as Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter to reach new and existing clients more effectively.