Coming soon to the State Library of NSW is a fabulous seminar exploring the role of games in public libraries! Thanks to the hard work of Ellen Forsyth r u game? on June 23rd will start the conversation which continues on June 24th with an online gaming seminar in the land of World of Warcraft. Check out the games and public libraries wiki for more!
To cap off this great event, you can also buy the #rugame2010 tee shirt!!
Monday, May 24, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
risg2010 presentations
Great to see the presentations from the 2010 Reference @ the Metcalfe seminar going up on the RISG blog
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Ref ex wiki update 2010
Ellen & I both presented an update, what the stats have shown, and future plans for the Reference Excellence wiki at the 2010 Reference @ the Metcalfe seminar on May 4th.
Ref ex wiki update 2010
View more presentations from Clarence Regional Library.
Friday, April 23, 2010
nswRISG on RedBubble
I'm so excited!
After a couple of hectic weeks trying to sort out the legalities, the financials, & the technicalities of artwork the NSW Reference & Information Services Group finally has a RedBubble account and some tee shirts to sell (at no profit I might add) promoting just some of the various activities they're currently involved in - #bookbinge & #risg2010 for starters.
Check it out - http://www.redbubble.com/people/nswrisg
10-15 days delivery is advertised but I was lucky & my shirts arrived in only 3 business days.
A huge thankyou to the RA team for floating the tee shirt idea & to Ellen for all her hard work in dealing with the legalities & financial aspects (making sure we don't make a profit & don't breach any Australian laws). I have to say I had fun playing with the artwork & using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) for the very first time.
After a couple of hectic weeks trying to sort out the legalities, the financials, & the technicalities of artwork the NSW Reference & Information Services Group finally has a RedBubble account and some tee shirts to sell (at no profit I might add) promoting just some of the various activities they're currently involved in - #bookbinge & #risg2010 for starters.
Check it out - http://www.redbubble.com/people/nswrisg
10-15 days delivery is advertised but I was lucky & my shirts arrived in only 3 business days.
A huge thankyou to the RA team for floating the tee shirt idea & to Ellen for all her hard work in dealing with the legalities & financial aspects (making sure we don't make a profit & don't breach any Australian laws). I have to say I had fun playing with the artwork & using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) for the very first time.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Playing with graphics
I've spent the last 2 days playing with RedBubble - www.redbubble.com.au - and Gimp - www.gimp.org - turning images from one sphere into wearable art in another sphere. Challenging. Scary. Rewarding. Fun (my bank balance may never recover from the resultant retail therapy!!)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Feb 1 - MashUps revisited
MashUps are one of those things I wish I had far more time for. I enjoy utilising what others have done but would really like to be able to do more of them myself. That said, I'm choosing not to do this week's challenge simply because after 6+ weeks of finding time to fit these activities in I'm still at a loss as to when that will be.
I like the idea of MashUps - not just of images but also of information and see the value of resources like LibWorm which take a search query and correlate rss fed data to answer it. That said, the query requires a degree of sophistication to get the right set of results (like any online search really). It's a flip from my stanadrd rss feeds which direct my searching and querying simply by the nature of the ebb and flow of information as I read through them. Obviously I'm more of an organic thinker (stream-of-consciousness) than structured.
On an RA note I'm curious about the rise of Literary mashups and the blending of established classic pieces of literature (biography/history) and obscure (and perhaps confronting) genres into mainstream (though fairly oddball) fiction - beyond the realms of Jasper Fforde and into the world of the bizarre with titles such as "Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter" and "Mr Darcy, vampyre" - otherwise known as Literary monster mashups (as a subgenre no less!).
I like the idea of MashUps - not just of images but also of information and see the value of resources like LibWorm which take a search query and correlate rss fed data to answer it. That said, the query requires a degree of sophistication to get the right set of results (like any online search really). It's a flip from my stanadrd rss feeds which direct my searching and querying simply by the nature of the ebb and flow of information as I read through them. Obviously I'm more of an organic thinker (stream-of-consciousness) than structured.
On an RA note I'm curious about the rise of Literary mashups and the blending of established classic pieces of literature (biography/history) and obscure (and perhaps confronting) genres into mainstream (though fairly oddball) fiction - beyond the realms of Jasper Fforde and into the world of the bizarre with titles such as "Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter" and "Mr Darcy, vampyre" - otherwise known as Literary monster mashups (as a subgenre no less!).
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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