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Showing posts with label risg2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risg2012. Show all posts
Monday, May 28, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Wikipedia in the library
If you missed seeing Liam Wyatt's presentation at Reference at the Metcalfe, make sure you catch up with it here. Wikipedia in the library : Liam Wyatt's presentation for #risg2012
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Imagine there's no desk
Shaun O'Dwyer and Kylie Bailin from the University of New South Wales reprised their presentation from VALA, as it was very relevent for public libraries.
The links for this presentation are from the VALA website, you can watch their presention.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Presentation on Open library data by Martin Boyce, given at #risg2012
You can see Martin's presention here, and you can read more about his ideas in this link.
You can find more presentations from the seminar on the Reference and Information Service Group wiki. Don't forget to join the wiki.
You can find more presentations from the seminar on the Reference and Information Service Group wiki. Don't forget to join the wiki.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Pam Langridge's presentation from risg2012
This is the presentation which Pam Langridge gave at #risg2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
How do you keep aware of trends in reference and information services?
The May theme for the twitter reading group is escape.
This is a great way to view professional reading (watching or listening) as it can be through what you are reading you can work out ideas to escape bad work practices, or ways to escape to even more impressive work practices than you work place is currently undertaking. You could go from good, to great. A recent OCLC survey showed that, on average only 13% of library staff used blogs as way of keeping up to date with library information.
You can see the brief presentation I made about this today at #risg2012 here. The links below are not an exhaustive list of all the possibilities, but I did not want to overwhelm with choice.
The following are links to the tools, sites I talked about:
Google alerts - you define your alert by setting up your key words, topics
Pulse - app alerts reading
Flip - ios only format, app alerts reading
Google currents - magazine/news source style content
Google reader - web based
Reeder, uses your Google reader feeds, app
NSW RISG tools
NSW RISG on twitter
NSW RISG twitter lists
RISG new technology blog
RISG wiki join this, and ask to be a writer to contribute content.
and on Flickr
This is a great way to view professional reading (watching or listening) as it can be through what you are reading you can work out ideas to escape bad work practices, or ways to escape to even more impressive work practices than you work place is currently undertaking. You could go from good, to great. A recent OCLC survey showed that, on average only 13% of library staff used blogs as way of keeping up to date with library information.
You can see the brief presentation I made about this today at #risg2012 here. The links below are not an exhaustive list of all the possibilities, but I did not want to overwhelm with choice.
The following are links to the tools, sites I talked about:
Google alerts - you define your alert by setting up your key words, topics
Pulse - app alerts reading
Flip - ios only format, app alerts reading
Google currents - magazine/news source style content
Google reader - web based
Reeder, uses your Google reader feeds, app
NSW RISG tools
NSW RISG on twitter
NSW RISG twitter lists
RISG new technology blog
RISG wiki join this, and ask to be a writer to contribute content.
and on Flickr
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