Video online

Both YouTube and Google video have all kind of topics on the web sites, some of them personal, entertainment or inform.

Library can videotape the events and activities such as school holiday activities or senior week events, then publish them on library website to promote, and inform the community of what has happened in the library.

Wiki

I like the wiki idea, as the video suggested, a group can organize their ideas or trips or plans together using the wikipedia. And only the one created it and people involved can edited contents. I think it will be good for library staffs if they are working in a project together. Such as written a procedure, instead of email to each time the contents changed, the changes can be edited in the wiki documents and others can either edit or change or leave comments. It will make life easier.

Library procedures can also placed in a wiki site, save the network space, or trying to retrieve from trim. It will make finding documents so much easier.

Real simple syndication

I have selected three web sites to be included in my bloglines, News, powerhouse museum and travel. One of the advantage of it is that all the interested topics can be access from one point without have to remember the individual web site address. But then still have to remember the user name and password - what happen if it is forgotten? while if forgot the web address of each individual site, you can also search them from google.

Library can use them to access the current update library news online instead of print format. But some of the current update have already been send out through the subscribe list.

Library buildings

To upload some photoes onto my blog, I choosed five different library buildings, as I wondered, Does it make a difference where and what kind of library buildings you work at? and What is the designer's thought when they design such a building for library?

Also, from the client's point of view, do they more likely to attract clients (who does not go to library at all) more than the conventional buildings? I think, for myself, I probably will go to such libraries out of curiosity.