Delicious and LibraryThing

Here is the link to my delicious account - http://www.delicious.com/linda.cockburn. It contains lots of links to favourite recipes I have collected over time. I find this a lot quicker to my access favourite recipes than just making them favourites in my browser also this way I can share them with friends and family and they can also add to there favourites as well.

We are building a new library at Cockburn and have just finished refurbishing an older branch and we used delicious to record all the relevant websites we find for suppliers, other library experiences and sites on new library projects.

LibraryThing is a great tool for keeping a record of what you have been reading and also discovering what others are reading as well and the reviews they publish. Here is the link to my LibraryThing catalogue -
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Linda.cockburn.

At Cockburn we subscribe to an interface for LibraryThing which is embedded in our catalogue. Once a month we export all our new records to LibraryThing which creates a link in our catalogue so that our library members can click on a title that takes them to the LibraryThing website where they can read reviews and use the genre clouds to find similar titles. There are also clouds embedded in our catalogue that link to titles within our collection.

Wikis

Wow - so much information out there. So many people willing to share information and expertise. It's a bit daunting in a way - I worry about the time you need to keep up with everything as well do all your day to day stuff and still have some leisure time left over to relax!

I could see a wiki being a useful tool to create procedure manuals and job position descriptions. All staff would be able to contribute and edit the documents.

I have enjoyed exploring RSS feeds and spending the time to set it up properly. The advantages of having all the latest info coming to you is so much more convenient that trolling thru looking for stuff yourself. However I think you must be discerning as you could end up with too many feeds coming in and end up spending too much time browsing through them. I chose these sites for a bit of variety that covers some of my interests. We use RSS feeds with feedburner at the library from our events calendar to our library blog and also back into our website to create a scrolling calendar.

Saucy Onion
Bloginity
720_saturday_breakfast
Library Technology Guidelines
Time

Fishing in Hefei

We spent a magnificent day fishing with Leo's grandfather. We drove to a special place that is similiar to a fish farm. You pay a price and they supply you with rods and bait. There is also a restaurant on site where they will cook the fish you catch. We had lunch and the menu consisted of Duck Soup (including the head), chicken, fish, prawns and vegetables - a feast! After lunch we continued fishing and I caught two fish using traditional pole fishing which involves a technique of watching small floats on top of the water until they start to disappear slightly. You must then quickly flick the rod over your head which in my case meant the poor fish ended up in the bushes behind me!