Annotated Citation - St Johns Library Collection Development Policy Wiki

St John's University Libraries., 2010, St John's University Libraries' wiki, Main/Collection Development Policy Statement', New York, viewed 25th April 2010
http://libraries.stjohns.edu/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.CollectionDevelopmentPolicyStatement

This wiki contains the Collection Development Policy of St Johns University in New York. The site is considered authoritive, as the university has been established since 1870. Contact details are available through links from the website. The site states that the page was 'wikified' by J. Garino.The last updated date from the wiki is 1st February 2010. A history of alterations to the wiki is available through a 'history' link.

The wiki itself does not appear to have many changes which can only be made by logging into the wiki with a password. The content of the wiki i.e. the CDP is extremely interesting and covers everything from acquisitions and maintenance through to withdrawal of materials. Each subject collection is covered. As well the universitypolicy on digitisation of the collection is also covered. While the amount of detail is perhaps not applicable to library technicians it gives a valuable guide to all aspects of CDP and in parts could be utilised in our libraries.

Rollyo

After some initial teething problems I finally was able to get my Rollyo scroll accepted and available to all. I found it a little clunky to start with but after using it more i think it is a valuable site. My scroll is called Library Interest and a number of websites that cover a variety of general interest areas for all who work in the library area. The sites are:

resourceshelf.com
trove.nla.gov.au
librariesinteract.info
vala.org.au

The link to my site is http://www.rollyo.com/orion21

Annotated Citation - RMIT Library Podcast

RMIT University 2010, Library//Available Podcasts, RMIT University, Vic. viewed 20 April 2010

This is a series of podcasts which give instructions on how to use the RMIT Library and other items of interest to students such as plagiarism, referencing, using Google Smart. The site is authoritive as it is produced by a reputable academic institution despite the .biz url. No authors are given for site although the url has an author name within it. Contact details are available via the podcast page to members of the staff. No update dates are given for the site although the bottom of the web page refers to copyright RMIT University 2010.

This is a good podcast site as it can not only be used by RMIT students but also other interested parties. General information on the use of dictionaries and ABS info are included. The podcasts use a conversation between a librarian and a student as the learning tool. Of interest is the transcript on 'Copyright and wrongs' which gives a good rundown on the use of images and music in student work and their attribution. About half way through this transcript the librarian and the student are suddenly transposed in their roles with the librarian asking questions and the student answering.


The link for the podcast website is:

http://www.rmit.biz/browse;ID=6hm8p5agsbje;STATUS=A;PAGE_AUTHOR=Kieran%20Wilson;SECTION=2;#content

You Tube video

This is my You Tube video showing how to use a back binder. Only took about 3 hours on my home computer. Simple!!

You Tube Video - Using Binder

TALIS blog.

I know I said I would do a critical evaluation on this blog, however the deeper I looked into Talis and its operations the more I realised I didnt have a clue what they were talking about with the 'semantic web and web 3.0'. This is digging deep into metadata and web programming so I looked for a different blog and came up with 'In the library with a lead pipe' http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/

In the Library with the lead pipe

Badman, D. et al. (2008) In the Library with the Lead Pipe United States viewed 07/04/2010 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/ .

In the Library with the Lead Pipe is run by six authors all librarians in public, academic and school libraries in the US. Contact details are available for each of the librarians as well as a short history on each of them. Items of interest are published on the site after being submitted for peer review by one external and one internal reviewer. The site is therefore considered authorititive. The published aim of the site is intended to 'help improve our communities, our libraries, and our professional organizations. Our goal is to explore new ideas and start conversations; to document our concerns and argue for solutions'. It has an understandable US bias in its published articles.

This site is interesting to all library workers but seems from its articles to have a leaning towards educational situations in the school and college system rather than public libraries. That said there are some interesting articles in the archives on libraries in general. Most articles seem to be 1000 or so words long and fully referenced so maybe this is as much an online magazine as it is a blog.