21 November 2011

Investigative Exercise 11 Recommendations



My local library is one of the branches of the City of Sydney Library Network. This library network does an excellent job using web 2.0 technologies. Their different web activities include:                                                     
  • http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/library/
     The above list is excellent collection of web 2.0 gadgets, but somehow those posts  are not addressed to the smaller local communities of the branches. So here is a suggestion how my local library could improve on that.

    The population is young and the community is just forming in the Alexandria-Zetland area...The Green Square Library already does a good job in providing mums and babies some programs. Rhymetime  for babies is now on weekly at Green Square.( It is a lapsit program that combines rhymes, music, singing, board books, puppets and toys to develop early literacy skills.)
    The interest is obviously there from the patrons, so a collection of great parenting  blogs posted on the library's website  would definitely catch the attention of a lot of  mothers. Miscalenious Mum on http://miscmum.com/ or The Sharpest Pencil on http://sharpestpencil.wordpress.com/    are just two  great examples about the community these blogs create. 

       Here is a futher  example from the NSW State Library about how   to   collect and share blogs on different subjects and make it accessible to the public/ patrons:http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/publications/blogs.html?HomeLink=Share

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