Final blog -Thing 18

I’ve enjoyed blogging and reading other participants blogs-it’s useful to get ideas from other colleagues. I would be happy to use blogs in future to reflect on a learning experience.

Things I think I’ll use personally in the future are Worlde (it’s fun), Meet-O-Matic  and LibraryThing. I will think about using Protopage as a home page but will explore bookmarks and Google further to make sure I have a home page that suits my needs. I’ll spend more time exploring the help pages of IE, Google Chrome and gmail to make sure I’m making the most of the features they have to offer.

Understanding Creative Commons took a few goes but I think I will be able to use, and advise others on using, online images with appropriate citations in future

I don’t think I’ll need to use Cite U Like or RSS feeds in NHS My Library but I will recommend these tools to NHS staff I know.

One of the extra things I enjoyed using was the “Snipping tool” mentioned in Thing 1. Over the 3 months of the programme this tool has developed so you can now snip  various shapes-just an illustration of how these Web tools continue to evolve.

RSS Feeds added to My Library Thing 11

Years ago I added some links to key journals and websites to My Library page but hadn’t looked at it for a while

I was impressed with the ease of adding RSS feeds to My Library and their appearance on the page. definitely something to promote to Athens users. I think Protopage is a useful way for a Library to promote its resources by subject and can be used as a tool for individuals to choose which resources to add as links or RSS feeds to their own NHS My Library.

CiteUlike Thing 17

I’m very impressed with CiteUlike. I can see why researchers would like to search other user’s references and track CiteUlike users with the same interests.

I haven’t added the CiteULike button to my Browser, but can see that if I did, it would make adding references found on Google Scholar and PubMed easy to add to my CiteULIke  personal Library.

I have joined the “Health Library Advocacy Group”, but looking at the groups’ bibliographic  references it doesn’t seem a very active or focused group.

I’ve added references to my CiteULike Library by searching and selecting references from the CiteUlike Library; by searching Google Scholar and adding references  using the Posting the URL link in the MyCiteULike drop down menu; and have also used this link to add citations of articles found on PubMed by posting the  PMID code,

Selecting format and style of my reference bibliography seemed simple.

LibraryThing Thing 16

I had already set up an account for LibraryThing but had lost my password so had to request a new one.

I am using LibraryThing for my personal use to make a note of books I’ve enjoyed, so I can remember which authors I am looking for when I go to the library-although I expect I’ll find the  recommendations and reviews of similar books by LibraryThing members  useful. I have created a couple of new collections “Order from the Library” “Buy as presents”.

I use the author title search box and select records from Amazon to add to my collections but see I could select records from the British Library catalogue instead

I like the List presentation with small cover pictures and bibliographic detail and details of how many other Librarything members have listed a book in their collection.

                               

I have edited My profile so my Library is private a present but expect I will change it so it is shared at some point

(I currently have 20 books in my collections so have a long way to go before I have to consider paying.)

Google Chrome -Thing 6

Having read “Vicki t’s stuff and nonsense” post about importing bookmarks into Google Chrome I was encouraged to import my favourites from IE to Google Chrome and it did work. I’m still getting to grips with the layout of the Bookmark bar in Google chrome, I expect it will help  if I do some editing and filing of my bookmarks .

I started using Google Chrome as my browser a few months ago. Thing 6 has prompted my to look at some of the other Google Chrome help pages. I’ve cleared my download history and will go back to reread pages on “Managing cookies and site data” and “Delete your cache and other browser data”. I need to read some of these pages a couple of times before I begin to understand them!

 

Meet-o-matic

I enjoyed using Meeto-o-matic but I think if you can access Doodle it is better as you can be more specific about meeting times. I have used Meet-o-matic to arrange a meeting with Librarians from different Libraries. I have used Doodle to select the best day  when arranging a day out with family, and a friend arranged a rota of people to take her  Mum to hospital appts by sending family members a Doodle so they could confirm their availability.

 

 

Creating a Protopage-thing 9

I have created a personal Protopage. I enjoyed selecting the colours for the widgets and background but am aware that I would probably need to take more care choosing colours if I was creating a public page, to ensure readability.

I have added Widgets for RSS feeds and for some webpages. I tried to add a webpage widget for my email login page but it wouldn’t accept it. There is an Email widget but it goes to your open email box. Gmail is very secure and  is now requiring that you set up 2-step verification and then set up an application specific password for Protopage before enabling this widget. I couldn’t be bothered will all the security checks so have just added links to my email login pages on the Bookmark tab.

Creative Commons-Thing 7

I have just explored some of the Creative Commons webpage and the information was more accessible than I feared. I enjoyed trying all the options on the Choose a licence page http://creativecommons.org/choose

I have learned from experience that if I choose the “Text” tab at the top of the Edit Post box (in WordPress) I can copy HTML code into my post and then if I click on the “Visual ” tab I can see the picture.

For this swan picture I found on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svan_(9384725769).jpg  I clicked on  the “use this file ” link on the left of the picture  then copied the HTML/BBCode. I clicked on the Text tab at the top of the text box for the post and pasted the text into the post. I then clicked on the Visual tab and the picture appeared in my post and when you use the mouse to hover over the picture you get details of who took the photo and the kind of creative commons licence it has

I copied and pasted the image of the Swan below  and then clicked in the top left of the picture to reveal an edit button. In Edit options I  entered details of Attribution and the Creative commons licence the picture was made available under in the Caption box.

Attributed to Fredrik Alpstedt. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svan_(9384725769).jpg

The Creative Commons webpages suggest that if I want to add my own licenced content to the web an easy way to do so is to use its easier to share it with an existing community eg Flikr or Wikimedia:

Flickr is a popular photo- and video-sharing site that has enabled Creative Commons licenses. The easiest way to post images online with a CC license is to let Flickr handle all the hosting, posting, and licensing for you (unfortunately this is not available via  on most NHS pcs)

The CC  Licence for the Reflection picture on thing 13 has a

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND

This license is the most restrictive of the Creative Commons six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

Protopage and other Library home pages and RSS feeds (Thing 8 and 11)

It was good to be prompted to look at other library home pages.  Protopage and Netvibes give the possibility of providing  more details of our subject collections, so we can send a reader a link to a page with details of books and journals relating to their speciality. The links to RSS feeds for current journal issues are  useful. It is interesting to see that libraries use colour coding to differentiate between  subscribed and non subscribed journals.

Lancashire Care Library & Information Service have used Blogger to create their home page. http://lancashirecarelibraryblog.com/  I like the clear tabs but don’t like the abbreviations they’ve use as tag titles eg “Cat” and “Jnls”

Even on an non NHS network PC some of the Netvibes widgets/RSSfeeds took a moment to load

I also Explored  Thing 11: Adding RSS feeds to NHS My Library

I thing  Protopage and Netvibes pages are useful to promote the Library journals, books and  services,  but maybe as as an advert for what is available rather than expecting readers to use these page as their own home page. If we show library readers how to set up RSS feeds to their own favourite library journals on the NHS Evidence MyLibrary page, readers will already be logged into Open Athens when they read the current contents and can follow links to read full text of articles.

QR codes

I used  http://delivr.com/qr-code-generator to create a QR code for my Library home page.

(I was impressed with the advice given on this qr code generator site on what size QR code you needed if you were going to use it on a billboard!)

My husband has a Neoreader  app on his android phone and we used this to scan my QR code.

We also scanned a QR code on a planning application notice on a lamp post. The scanned  QR code took us to the specific detailed planning application on the Local Authority planning database.

The URLs for e-books are usually quite long; in the Health Services Library we used QR codes to link to the login for specific e-books.