Edith Speller's Public Library

Introductory steps for Google Wave - something that I still haven't had a chance to play with properly, so I'm bookmarking resources ready for when I have the time!

lifehacker.com/...google-wave-101 - Preview

googlewave tutorials web2.0 work

Wiki to home Mashed Library project ideas, techniques, resources etc.

mashedlibrary.com/...index.php - Preview

work mashups mashlib systems

To investigate. AcaWiki is like "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online.

acawiki.org/Home - Preview

usered research wiki

Various sources of RSS/email alerts for journals. Useful for teaching staff/students how to keep up-to-date.

hwlibrary.wordpress.com/...ith-scholarly-journal-contents - Preview

usered work current_awareness journals rss

John Peel's Festive Fifties from 1976-2000 in Spotify Playlist form. Excellent :)

drownedinsound.com/...el-tastic-playlists-on-spotify - Preview

music spotify indie

I regularly refer to this; it's a good way to explain what library skills training is all about to academics.

www.sconul.ac.uk/...headline_skills.html - Preview

work information literacy skills usered

Alternative Flickr search engine with easy Creative Commons search options. To try out.

behold.cc - Preview

Flickr photos search

Lots of online graphic-editing tools, including taking website screenshots. Unfortunately don't seem to work in IE6, so I need to wait for work to upgrade before I try them out!

aviary.com - Preview

work usered screenshots graphics

Quick tool for taking a screenshot of a whole webpage (not just one screen's worth. Some options e.g. size, filetype.

www.superscreenshot.com - Preview

work usered screenshots graphics

Quick explanation of different commands to shutdown/reboot a UNIX server and what they mean!

userpages.umbc.edu/...shutdown.html - Preview

unix systems commands reboot

Great free online tool for editing images - hopefully means I won't have to reinstall GIMP at work!

www.pixlr.com/editor - Preview

web2.0 tools graphics editor

Interesting ideas about preparing handouts for one-off info literacy/research sessions.

pegasuslibrarian.com/...-librarians-secret-weapon.html - Preview

work usered handouts information literacy

~9min video about JISC's Libraries of the Future campaign. Not yet watched.

www.jisc.ac.uk/...librariesofthefuture - Preview

to_watch videos advocacy education libraries

New animations and guides to using Web 2.0 tools for research, admin or teaching - likely to come in very handy for developing in-house training. CC-licensed. Topics include RSS, Social Media and Microblogging with more to come.

web2practice.jiscinvolve.org - Preview

work usered web2.0 tutorials

To watch.

www.davidleeking.com/...book-pages-basics-a-screencast - Preview

facebook tutorials screencast videos

Shows London bus routes on a Google map.

whatbus.com - Preview

london travel buses

New feature allows a widget ('fan box') to be added to any webpage to promote a Facebook Page. Requires javascript or iframe. Can show badge + optionally stream and selection of fans.

wiki.developers.facebook.com/...Fan_Box - Preview

work facebook integration marketing

Excellent little introduction to social bookmarking using delicious.com as an example. Starts with value of having bookmarks on a website rather than one PC, then benefits of tagging and organising bookmarks, then touches on social dimension.

www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english - Preview

del.icio.us socialbookmarking video tutorials

Video explaining democratising effect and value of tags, ratings and comments in social media using the excellent analogy of ice-cream.

www.commoncraft.com/socialmedia - Preview

video socialmedia tutorials

Cool calendar with stop-motion, tilt-shifted photography around Japan plus good music :)

www.uniqlo.com/calendar - Preview

calendar fun