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Tuesday, 9 June 2009
An evening with Tim Cope
High adventure at your library
Tim Cope – Australian Adventurer of the Year 2006 - has a passion for adventure and exploration.
Here's your chance to get up close and personal with Tim as he talks about his many journeys, including a 10,000km bicycle ride across Russia and Mongolia, a world-first expedition rowing a wooden boat 5,000km through Siberia and his three and a half year odyssey by horse on the trail of Genghis Khan from Mongolia to Hungary.
To swat up on Tim, we have a couple of his releases for you to borrow.
Where: Frankston Library Lounge
When: Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
To book: Book online anytime or phone 9784 1020 during opening hours
Tim Cope – Australian Adventurer of the Year 2006 - has a passion for adventure and exploration.
Here's your chance to get up close and personal with Tim as he talks about his many journeys, including a 10,000km bicycle ride across Russia and Mongolia, a world-first expedition rowing a wooden boat 5,000km through Siberia and his three and a half year odyssey by horse on the trail of Genghis Khan from Mongolia to Hungary.
To swat up on Tim, we have a couple of his releases for you to borrow.
Where: Frankston Library Lounge
When: Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
To book: Book online anytime or phone 9784 1020 during opening hours
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Big Idea.
Hey everyone!
Since nothing's been posted on here for months, I thought i'd throw something into the ring. This is the "What's the Big Idea" section of John Scalzi's Blog. It's a series of short essays by various authors on how the ideas for their novels are formulated. There are some very interesting ideas in there.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/category/big-idea/
Hope you like it.
Scott.
Since nothing's been posted on here for months, I thought i'd throw something into the ring. This is the "What's the Big Idea" section of John Scalzi's Blog. It's a series of short essays by various authors on how the ideas for their novels are formulated. There are some very interesting ideas in there.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/category/big-idea/
Hope you like it.
Scott.
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
IM the Library
Instant messaging test
There's a new widget on this blog! We are testing Instant Messaging (IM).
IM, also known as chat, is a form of private communication between two online users. Using the Meebo IM widget on the Blogalogue, we could operate an online reference service for our customers. This would be faster and more interactive than customer emails and provide an alternative to the telephone. One advantage of IM over phone calls is the ability to copy and paste website urls into the IM widget.
Here's some lowdown on IM:
There's a new widget on this blog! We are testing Instant Messaging (IM).
IM, also known as chat, is a form of private communication between two online users. Using the Meebo IM widget on the Blogalogue, we could operate an online reference service for our customers. This would be faster and more interactive than customer emails and provide an alternative to the telephone. One advantage of IM over phone calls is the ability to copy and paste website urls into the IM widget.
Here's some lowdown on IM:
Among the things that we need to decide as a group is how, when and if we want to use this service. It requires that we log-on to show that we are available, so at what times should we be online or offline during opening hours? Do we treat IM customers just the same as in-person and phone customers, ie, they're in the queue? Which PC do we operate it from when there's 2 Info people about? Things like that.
If you wan to play with it, please feel free to ask me and I'll set up a chat - or "chat" amongst yourselves! You could be the customer or the Info person - your choice. To log in as the ref person, go to Meebo and sign in to the Meebo login with the ID libraryenquires and the password imthelibrary.
Any ?s, just ask: Glenn
Friday, 23 November 2007
Federated searching
Stop blog!
Please pass on any customer comments.
Hi all,
As we want to make it easier for people to access, search and retrieve from our Gulliver and BRUCE resources, we are currently experimenting with federated searching for our online databases.
We have set up a free trial for WebFeat, which has been customised to our resources. It's still a bit raw, but I'd like people to give it a go, give it some thought and then give some feedback (verbal, email, blog comments, whatever). Note that we can add more categories and change some of the other display settings.
An alternate product is 360 Search. We don't have a live trial for this, but you can access the Yarra Plenty Regional Library Service live version of this using the following ID and password:
Username: 10235000
PIN: bess
Please let us know what you think about the two and which product you would pick. Also, if you are familiar with any other federated searching options, please let me know about those too.
Glenn
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Read Alert live
Hi all,
Now that the links work externally, I've Blogalogued our SDI Read Alert service, whereby customers can set up profile searches in their membership and receive emails that alert them to matches. This can range from a list of newly ordered Films or Adult Fiction to a profile for new books by Nora Roberts or J D Robb.
For customers without emails, and to promote things a little bit more by way of a practical demonstration, I've also set up a public Read Alert live service on the blog's sidebar that turns emails into an RSS feed. I'll update this with monthly new stock lists for each of several major collections.
There'll be a What's new link from the front page of the Library website.
We already have the Read Alert brochures available that explain how to use this service. Here's the online pdf version too.
Please, have a play, set up your own if you haven't already, and promote it.
harps
Now that the links work externally, I've Blogalogued our SDI Read Alert service, whereby customers can set up profile searches in their membership and receive emails that alert them to matches. This can range from a list of newly ordered Films or Adult Fiction to a profile for new books by Nora Roberts or J D Robb.
For customers without emails, and to promote things a little bit more by way of a practical demonstration, I've also set up a public Read Alert live service on the blog's sidebar that turns emails into an RSS feed. I'll update this with monthly new stock lists for each of several major collections.
There'll be a What's new link from the front page of the Library website.
We already have the Read Alert brochures available that explain how to use this service. Here's the online pdf version too.
Please, have a play, set up your own if you haven't already, and promote it.
harps
Monday, 12 November 2007
howdy
hi i-help team, how is everyone going with Learning 2.0? i'm only just getting into it and taking it slowly so that i can get to understand a bit more about each type of technology we're being introduced to...it certainly has opened me up to a new way of communicating. it does seem to me to be the same kind of human exchange/ dialogue that we've always done - just using new techology methods, e.g. isn't a blog a journal with extra's? i suppose now we can share what we think with the world - i'm still wondering if that's a really, really good outcome!! anyway it's fun to be able to learn how to use some of these tools (and not to look blank when others refer to them) and it's a refreshing way of saying "hello" to you all and to continue to enjoy the learning expereince! Adios, Beck
Thursday, 1 November 2007
Our new branch
Isn't it great that the new reality TV show set in our new branch is now on air - as reported in the Blogalogue!
ALIA even have a blog about it.
harps
ALIA even have a blog about it.
harps
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