Thursday, February 28, 2008

Uploading a Photo


This photo interested me as tomorrow will be Autumn and the photo gives us a reminder of the season.
I hope I downloaded this okay. It is all so new to me and I cannot see the image yet. I'm hoping it will appear when I save this post. Does anyone else think it is a bit tricky doing this?
I just checked this post and can see I have made a link to the photo I actually wanted the image on the page. I'll try again later.

Friday, February 22, 2008

My First Post

This is my first attempt at blogging and I am pleasantly surprised how easy the blog is to create. I can see lots of potential in using blogs within a library context. It would give our library service a wonderful avenue to inform our clients of happenings within our service.

We are located in regional NSW and therefore many of our clients live some distance from our libraries. Blogs could help overcome the distance barrier by publicising resources, events, new items in our collections, book reviews, etc. The interactive ability of the blog would be fantastic as we could have feedback from our customers.

Being from a rural community with a large older population we would have to remember many of our clientelle have not embraced the technological era with the same enthusiasm as our teenagers. This gives rise to the thought that our staff, once we have completed this short course, may feel confident to pass on our knowledge to this sector of our community.
It opens up a new world.