Energy and Teamwork

Here's a pic showing an impressive bit of energy and team work, one of the values we hold dear at the Library. I like to think we display "grace and elegance"as we go about our daily work - not sure though if all our energy is in our hindquarters.

I picked it cos a) I like stuff to do with horses and b) was intrigued by the comments inserted into the pic when you run mouse over it.

Blogs and libraries

How should libraries use blogs?

There are lots of things we could do with them but I've often thought that one thing a big research library like ours should be doing is capturing some blogs of ordinary everyday people today which will form part of the 'documentary heritage' of this state for scholars in 200 years time.

My colleague over at Library Thoughts has been thinking along similar lines. PANDORA will capture online publications of national or state significance but it looks like blogs are excluded from selection at present.

Will there be a 2208 black hole where previously have been diaries and letters?

Blogging - wiifm

It's taken some time to get back into the b/sphere but I've spent the time mulling over what to say, how to say it ... and have reflected on the nature of blogging which seems to me to mostly be one way communication. My observation is that most bloggers blog but most posts don't attract feedback. Not to say that means the posts are not useful, intriguing or thought provoking - just that they're one way. And that perhaps is a clue to the low priority it has had for me this week.

I love sharing ideas, tossing opinions and concepts back and forth, reshaping what I think depending on what I discover about what others think. But posting feels like shooting arrows into the sky and not knowing where they'll land.

A whole new way of communicating for me.

why wandering?

New bloggers should be warned about the time it takes to think up a cool, creative, elegant and intriguing name for your blog ... I've just spent 15 minutes doing some concept design work and then trying to come up with the right words to capture the concept. Yes, I know I can change it later but I also know a name change will remain low on the list of the many priorities competing for my attention.