I’m not sure we want to encourage such things.

Boise State University LibraryOriginally uploaded by Travelin’ Librarian.Thanks to whoever pointed out the “libraries and librarians” group on flickr! Flickr makes it absurdly easy to turn an image into a blog post.

Wikipedia as library search engine

Reblogged from tracking changes/changing tracks:

From Wikipedia to the OPAC

I don’t know how new this is, but it’s new to me. References to books within Wikipedia articles can contain ISBN links that, when clicked on, let you see what libraries have that book.

The default link takes you to a page with links to WorldCat and to individual library catalogs arranged geographically. But if you have a Wikipedia account, you can customize it so that the ISBN link searches for the book in Quest (or whatever OPAC you want to point it to.)

For an example of the default search, see Books on Charles Mingus in the Wikipedia entry on Mingus.

It also has an intriguing selection of vendor search engines and individual bookseller web sites. One interesting wrinkle?: the Wikipedia: Book Sources page divides the United States’ libraries into national, public, and college and university libraries. Notice anything missing?

Ross

Holiday Party mementos

Pictures are up from our holiday party!Flickr login: watsonoutreach

Password: metmuseum-Jennie

At Long Last LT!

There’s finally an entry for LibraryThing under Tag This! on the wiki, submitted for your perusal. Nobody faint!

Tavia

It’s all carrots to me

I’d been thinking about the presentations yesterday, particulary Jennie and Robyn’s on podcasting, wondering how exactly I’d get my hands on an MP3 player, when the following post from Loudon County PL’s Learning 2.0 showed up in my Bloglines. Evidently some librarians need incentives to learn Library 2.0. I’m so glad we’re above stooping to schemes like this … I am, aren’t I?

Staff Prizes for completing all 23 Things!!!!

23 Things – Every staff member who completes all 23 things will receive a RCA Flash Memory MP3 Player capable of holding at least 256mb worth of data, music and/or audio files. Also include are 100 free MP3 downloads from eMusic.com. Staff have until Feb 28th to complete all 23 items in order to receive the RCA Flash Memory MP3 Player.

This is in the context of LCPL’s kicking off of its Learning 2.0 program for the entire library staff. The blog post announcing it includes a podcast Message from Doug (whom I take to be library director Douglas Henderson).

Ross

Polidori’s Podcast

So, I did find the podcast produced by the Met in which Robert Polidori speaks about his photographs of New Orleans. I found it just by entering “polidori” in the search boxes using 2 of the 3 directories posted on the Wiki. So I guess it just emphasizes the fact that one needs to try a few different directories to really find out what’s out there in podcast-land.
Robyn

Oh, the things you can do!

Riffing on Angela’s post on Google Maps and Google Earth, somewhere in my web trolling I came across a rave for MapLib, a mashup of Google Maps and Flickr! that allows the user to put Google-like markers () on any image — a map of your own choosing, a family photograph, a painting in the Museum (hmmm). You can then add descriptive notes. Of course like every web application these days, it has its social aspect: insiders (like ourselves) or the entire world (if you permit) can make comments on your ‘map’. I’ve limited it to this crowd for now.

As an experiment I signed up watsonlibrary (with our favorite password) and created a map I called Libraries at the Met (which I promptly misspelled; no heckling, please). This allows all of us to wiki-ly correct any errors and omissions (excepting the map name, evidently — thank goodness “this is only a test”).

I was unsuccessful at figuring out how to load the image into the sidebar of the Outreach blog itself.

– Ross, of course

Google Maps and Google Earth

Google Maps and Google Earth haven’t come up yet except peripherally (ex: geotagging in Flikr), but these might be useful tools for our audience.

Unfortunately, using Google Earth really slows down the museum’s network, so I haven’t used it as much as Google Maps. But the maps alone have been wonderful (I’ve been to Tokyo a number of times now, despite my fear of flying

There are plenty of articles and blogs talking about Google Maps and Google Earth. I’ll post a few links to del.icio.us .

–angela

Scheduling next meetings

Okay, the upshot of our meeting today is that I’ll schedule meetings in Outlook from now on for those who like; people who want to be included in that list should email me.  We’ll still post and discuss about scheduling, etc., here as well.

We’ll keep our December 14th meeting as scheduled (for RSS, Writely and Podcasts), and I’ll schedule another meeting or two for Tags and Google.  At this rate, we will probably run into January given holiday schedules–that’s okay.

 JL

The many ways to Flickr

A rich and helpful illustration of the various applications of Flickr (starting not the least with the ability to blog this photo), and one that we’ll use for tomorrow’s Outreach 3 presentation.

-Jennie