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Web 2.0 online course. With you can: Update your details View your study information Track the status of your materials Access your assessment marks and final grades for each course Check your account balance Access Online Campus We're delighted to join with Microsoft to provide you with a email account that will never expire – even when you complete your qualification. You will have access to 25 GB of free storage and access to online versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. To login use your username which is your student ID number, followed by a lowercase 's', for example, 1234567s. If you have never logged into Online Campus or My Open Polytechnic your password is your date of birth in the following format: ddmmyyyy.
The first time you login you will be prompted to change your password to a password of your choosing that needs to consist of a minimum of 7 characters, 1 capital and 1 number. LIBRARY THING. LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. In April 2013, LibraryThing staff and members collaborated to write What makes LibraryThing LibraryThing?
, a blog post outlining what we see as the key elements of LibraryThing. What software does it require? None. What does it cost? A free account allows you to catalog up to 200 books. What information do I need to give up? None. What else does LibraryThing do? LibraryThing is a full-powered cataloging application, searching the Library of Congress, all five national Amazon sites, and more than 690 world libraries. If you want it, LibraryThing is also an amazing social space, often described as "Facebook for books. " Who is behind LibraryThing? Where does LibraryThing get its information?
Tour. LibraryThing for (Academic) Libraries. I joined LibraryThing a while ago and find it a handy place for me to keep track of what I’ve been reading (yes, I’m a crime fiction junkie) and to share ideas about what to read next with like-minded readers. I’ve have been intrigued by LibraryThing for Libraries – without knowing entirely how academic libraries might use it. So I fired off some questions for the “technology triumvirate†of the Claremont Colleges, Candace Lebel, their Integrated Library Systems Manager, Alexandra Chappell, a Reference and Instruction Librarian, and Jezmynne Westcott, Science Librarian. 1) What is LibraryThing for Libraries and why did you all decide it would enhance your catalog?
Candace Lebel: LibraryThing is an online book cataloging resource for individuals to keep track of their personal book collections and share that information with others. Users can organize and search their collections by adding descriptive “tags” to each book. 2) Does including LT tags confuse users? Tour | LibraryThing for Libraries. FLICKR. Flickris a popular photo-sharing and hosting service with advanced and powerful features. It supports an active and engaged community where people share and explore each other's photos. You can share and host hundreds of your own pictures on Flickr without paying a dime. There's also a pro service that gets you unlimited storage and sharing for about $2 a month, making it one of the cheapest hosting sites around (more on that later). Flickr was created by a small Canadian development team in 2002 before being acquired by Yahoo a year later. Adding your photos to Flickr First step: Get your photos into the service.
If you're not keen on downloading a piece of software, Flickr lets you upload six individual photos at a time. Continue reading to learn how to tag and organize photos, add notes, geotag, create albums, find out if you need a premium membership, and our list of Flickr users worth checking out. Newbie basics: Tagging and organizing. Notes. Geotagging. Sets. Collections. Sharing. The Library of Congress' Photostream. Library humour. How to: Make Flickr Work for Your Library – 50+ Resources | Coll. Flickr is wildly popular tool for photo addicts, but did you realize that it’s full of possibilities for library use? It’s true, and there are loads of resources out there that can help you fully take advantage of what Flickr has to offer. Read on to discover guides, tools, and so much more. Getting Started Follow these guides to get a crash course in using Flickr in your library.
Why should librarians care about Flickr? : This librarian makes the case for using Flickr in the library.Priceless Images: Getting Started with Flickr: Check out this post for an introduction to Flickr for libraries.Get Flickr-tastic! Uses Check out these ideas for using Flickr to get inspired. Tools Put these tools to work to make Flickr even more useful. Guides For specific instructions on how you can use Flickr, visit these guides and tutorials. Did you enjoy this article? WIKIS. A wiki allows a group of people to collaboratively develop a Web site with no knowledge of HTML or other markup languages.
Anyone can add to or edit pages in a wiki -- it is completely egalitarian. Anyone can create new wiki pages simply by creating a new link with the name of the page. Pages are connected not hierarchically, but by hyperlinks between pages. According to the creator of Wiki, Ward Cunningham, wikis can be identified by the following characteristics: "A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra add-ons. " "Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and by showing whether an intended target page exists or not.
" "A wiki is not a carefully crafted site for casual visitors. (From Leuf, Bo and Ward Cunningham. Continue to Why Wiki? Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Language Centre Library - Web 2: Oxford libraries. Virtual tour: virtual library for learning languages The exchange of experience day was great: seeing what others have done elsewhere (the science cloud on delicious @Cambridge particularly, but everyone on the day really) has convinced me of the positive points of web 2.0. The Staff Conference was great too, especially the Information overload? Sit back and let the information come to you with RSS Blog I have created a blog , inspired by the St Stephen's House Library example. Thanks to Jane, I have now installed a counter, using SiteMeter ...
Delicious I have two delicious accounts, one for the library, and one personnal. 1.The e-library is going well in delicious It is a regular work done by the Extended Hours Library Assistants. I'm happy with: the beauty of the cloud and how good non-latin funts look like. I am trying to get some logic between the physical library and the e-one, so that's why you will have similar tags, such as "reference" for grammars etc... 2. FaceBook LibraryThing. Bodleian Law Library - Web 2: Oxford libraries. RSS feed The Law Library is using an RSS feed to distribute library announcements (e.g. classes, weekly accessions lists, new databases, library news headlines). The feed displays in a box on our Library home page ( ), in the side bar of our blog ( ) and users can subscribe to it in their feed reader. We used Oxitems to create the feed.
Oxitems is free and is developed by OUCS which has meant that we have not had to worry about using third party software. We have found that using Oxitems is a very easy way to populate the announcements box on our homepage and in our blog. Blog ( ) We launched the Law Bod Blog in March 2008 to distribute library news such as new databases and useful web sites, library services news, new acquisitions, and research, database and technology tips. We decided to use Wordpress for our blog. Our blog is relatively new. Facebook page ( ) Wikis. Continuing Education library - Web 2: Oxford libraries. I've recently set up a blog for the Continuing Education Library inspired by Jane's demo to the Social Science Subject Group.
Items from it appear as news on our library website Even if no one ever takes part in the blog, I think it will be a more efficient way of getting news onto the website. I have to confess that I'm not very interested in Web 2.0 for my personal use and hadn't tried things out before but I found the blog pretty easy to set up, although I was grateful for Jane's help on some of the finer points. It's really easy to add stuff so if you are feeling a bit nervous about this area I'd say do give it a go. We only went public last week, so not much time to judge use but it's obvious people have been having a look since I emailed the Department about it. I was also pleased to be asked by our Department if I would label major items so that they could be picked up by the Department's news. Sainsbury Library - Web 2: Oxford libraries. Delicious We are in the process of transfering all the library's links to useful web resources from a static page on the library intranet to a delicious account.
Using delicious to store our bookmarks allows both the easy addition of new sites and the ability for our users to subscribe to updates from our account to easily see when we have added something new. When all of our current bookmarks have been uploaded we will push the feed from our delicious account to Facebook so every new addition is also posted there. Facebook At the start of the 2009-10 academic year we created a page for the library on Facebook. We also have a tab of boxes where users can search SOLO and OxLIP+, Copac, and JStor.
Twitter Shortly after launching the library's Facebook page we also created a Twitter account. Netvibes based start page Restricted access to Sainsbury Library staff only. Social Science Library - Web 2: Oxford libraries. The Social Science Library is using Web 2:0 tools for several purposes: 1. To explore new ways of consulting with our users, we are trialling an online forum (launched 20.02.08), and hope that it might also prove to be a useful space for users of the SSL to discuss ideas or issues with each other. Whether it will work or not depends entirely on whether our users wish to participate... Link: SSL Forum UPDATE: This site has been closed (Hilary Term 2009). After limited initial interest, students did not wish to use the forum as a channel to communicate with the library or each other. 2. Link: 3. Link: restricted to SSL staff. UPDATE: This blog has been hugely beneficial and is used daily by all staff. 4.
Link: 5. Link: 6. Nuffield College Library - Web 2: Oxford libraries. Our Delicious page is set up for both staff and our readers. We've linked to some of the most useful social science sites and popular elements within our own website. We've also created "private" links for staff to use after logging in (such as our fund codes). Delicious is easy to use, although sorting by tags is not necessarily intuitive for all staff. It does seem like a site you have to use regularly to really maximize its features. We haven't received any feedback from readers on this page yet, but we hope they're referring to it.
Facebook : We set up an institutional page for Nuffield in December 2007. Since we set up the page, we've acquired 208 "likes" (formerly called fans). LibraryThing : We started a LibraryThing page mostly so we could offer RSS feeds of new books to our readers, which we couldn't do with our current accessions pages. Vere Harmsworth Library - Web 2: Oxford libraries. The VHL started experimenting with web 2.0 tools in October 2007, as follows: Facebook: We originally set up a group , which had an initial flurry of interest (and joinings) but then stagnated somewhat, with very little contribution from its members. In January 2008, after the pages facility was introduced, I set up a page for the VHL instead (although the group still exists for the moment, giving members a chance to transfer or in case there was protest!). Although there is no more usage of the page than the group by readers (and we have fewer fans currently than we had members), I find the page more useful.
I can see usage statistics (which show a fairly healthy number of page views per day, comparable to what we're getting on the blog), and our blog news feed displays on the page automatically via the Notes application. Staff Blog: I've just set up an internal staff blog for the VHL, modelled after the ones that I know have been successful at the SSL and the Education Library.
Leelefever's Channel#p/u/14/-dnL00TdmLY. PODCASTING. PodcastAlley. PodOmatic | Podcast - Duggan Library Online Tutorials. Podcasting. Podcasting is a simple means of distributing audio content over the Internet, taking advantage of the power of RSS. Content consumers (end-users) can subscribe to a feed of a producer's audio content and receive automatic downloads of new content as it is made available online.
A more comprehensive discussion of podcasting can be found in the Wikipedia entry on podcasting. For the library that works hard to produce audio content such as recordings of programs or library tours, podcasting can be an effective means of making that content more widely available. The following is a list of libraries and affiliated organizations that are currently podcasting and offering selected podcast resources service: The following are School libraries that are currently podcasting or using podcast resources: For a list of podcasts that are aimed at or should be of interest to library staff, see the "Podcasts" page in LISWiki. How To Podcast (general advice) Podcast-friendly music Audio/Video Editing Software. Lewis & Clark Law School Podcasts » Business Law Fall Forum – In. Muskingum University Library Podcasts. Our View From the Park | Blog Talk Radio Feed @ technology.podca.
RSS FEEDS. How to Subscribe to RSS Feeds. Leelefever's Channel#p/u/15/0klgLsSxGsU. RSS Feeds. What is RSS. What is RSS? RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. RSS is an XML-based format for content distribution. Webmasters create an RSS file containing headlines and descriptions of specific information.
While the majority of RSS feeds currently contain news headlines or breaking information the long term uses of RSS are broad. RSS is a defined standard based on XML with the specific purpose of delivering updates to web-based content. Using this standard, webmasters provide headlines and fresh content in a succinct manner. Meanwhile, consumers use RSS readers and news aggregators to collect and monitor their favorite feeds in one centralized program or location.
RSS is becoming increasing popular. Definitions of RSS RSS (n) RSS is a Web content syndication format. RSS (n) RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. RSS. BLOGGING. The Real Deal 198: Beginner's guide to blogging (podcast) | The. Leelefever's Channel#p/u/11/NN2I1pWXjXI. Academic libraries - Blogging Libraries. Resources.NewZealandLibraryBloggers - LIANZA IT-SIG Wiki. Aussie Library Blogs. The Shifted Librarian. Liblether.
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