Curation, my new word for today.

Honestly, I never knew there was such a word.  Curator, cure...etc, but curation?  Well, it's there and being used in my profession so I guess I have to accept it. 

Information curation involves gathering information according to content, format, audience, etc.    

The 23things exercise involved exploring some content curation tools online such as Pinterest and Scoop.it  and creating a Scoop.it account.   It also encouraged us to begin "curating" a topic.   I choose "Genre fiction" and something I called "Books for you" which I hope will be useful when I start working on my Reader's advisory blog. 

I also did some scooping to find some sources and was impressed by the information I was able to locate.   Unfortunately, the one article I really wanted to read, about James Michener, seemed not to be available anymore.  Must try to dig it up elsewhere, guess my scoop was broken....

Anyhow, that's my 23thing for this week, pretty pumped that I finally caught up.   Looking forward to next week, but there's still 2 days here with March Break fever running rampant.   Gotta find a hiding space quick.

Multimedia uses in blogs and other applications for library work.

 

This week's exercise encouraged us to explore video sources such as youtube and podcasts to add multimedia content to our blogs and other uses  in our work.   I've been a fan of youtube for a few years, using it to catch up on episodes of Coronation Street (shh!) and other shows available on that site.   It's been interesting to follow fanfiction videos and library service demonstrations.  Of course, like many, I've done my share of looking at humourous videos of cats and dogs.   I still crack when I see the 'Ultimate Dog Tease' video.  

For this blog, I found a video on youtube that gives a very general description of historical genre fiction.  Have a look at this.   It would be a good tool to use for library orientation purposes.

Another feature found in multimedia web content are podcasts.  I've looked at a few sites and found them interesting, in fact...I might explore further to see if there are any cooking lessons available in youtube as well as podcasts.....but I will do that from home.  ;-)

One podcast that I feel will help me add useful features to my plans to create a blog about 'reader's advisory' is Barnes and Noble's Meet the writers.  It looks like it would be interesting, and since it's produced by a major bookseller, it should be more balanced and relevant than some of the fan or amateur sites available.

So much for last week's exercise, now on to this week.  Wish me luck.

Jo