12.Playing in the 23dingen sand pit.

I've added a comment to the wiki, 'Favoriete auteur,' under the name Hero. Thanks to Wallyg for the photo' on Flickr.

11. Discover Wiki's and how libraries use them.

Diagram by Yes!AndSpace on Flickr.

After a week away from the 23 things (my sister in England has an ancient Apple computer but has no desire to use it) I'm disappointed in myself that I can't seem to catch up again.
I've been reading all the given information about wiki's but have avoided reading what my colleagues have said in the hope of contributing something original.
My conclusions are that for wiki's to work for the library users there needs to be a community of common interest and potential contributors need to possess the skill to or be taught how to contribute. I have no doubt, when looking at the above diagram, that wiki's could improve communication, on a given topic, between members of the library staff.
I think wiki's could be useful in the Children's library as has already been demonstrated in Deventer with the Borgloschool project and could also be used in the Historical Information Centre.
Perhaps a wiki could be used for the campaign against illiteracy(Lees en Schrijf) with an emphasis on simple language and pictures.
Having looked at several examples of library wiki's in the U.S. and the Netherlands, I decided to search the internet for some British examples, starting with my home town of York. It would appear that there are many library professionals keeping blogs and using wiki's for training purposes but so far little is being done to encourage library user participation.
I watched an interesting and amusing (if a little long) slide show by Dave Pattern, Library systems manager of the University of Huddersfield. It's okay to play.
Finally, I looked at the '23 Dingen del.icio.us' page at the tag 'wiki' and I discovered, for all those of you who are already worrying about what to do with yourself after the 23 tasks have been completed, that there is a tag 'Wiki na 23 Dingen'!

What's in a name?

I was curious to know how 'Delicious' got it's name. Some of my colleagues probably already know but for those who don't, I read the following explanation from the site founder, Joshua Schacter in Wikipedia: "I'd registered the domain when .us opened the registry, and a quick test showed me the six letter suffixes that let me generate the most words. In early discussions, a friend referred to finding good links as 'eating cherries' and the metaphor stuck, I guess."
<sup>So the 'US"at the end stands for United States.

I'm reading a lot but not getting much further with using the site yet.

I'm editing this post having watched Rob's video and I've just added a bookmark for BBC learning English to the 23Dingen delicious site. My question is, if lots of other people use the same tags and expand my list of bookmarks, won't I eventually be confronted with too much information again and lose sight of my original findings?</sup>

10. Delicious

I've always found the Dutch word for delicious "a bit of a mouthful," if you'll excuse the pun!

I've been reading about the site,' Delicious,'
about tagging and I have looked at the
Delicious site for the '23 Dingen'.
I'm afraid I've had to leave it at that
for today.

8.Adapting Online Photo's.

I planned to spend an hour this afternoon looking at the different image generators. I started playing with badges on Web 2.0 badges and I logged into Picnik using the 23Dingen password. However, in the end I opted for the simplest exercise again and visited Fotoaanpassen.nl. In the theme of next week's Book week, I chose to play with a couple of photo's of sparrows and decorated them with an "original?" text!! Looking for the photo's was time consuming, there are 125,654 photo's of sparrows on Flickr, including quite a few of Nieuw-Zeeland fan's friend Johnny Depp in his famous role. Customising the photo's was fun though. I then saved them onto a paint document before publishing them on my blog. The little fella above is "House sparrow" by Marco K. and the "3,000 sparrows," below are by philliefan99.

9.Mijn visie op Web 2.0/ How I see Web 2.0.

Because this exercise will cost me some time, I've chosen to do it before exercise 8. I can use my Sunday afternoon to read and compose. Exercise 8. will follow!
Having read about my colleagues' disenchantment with reading items written in English, I'm reluctant to write a lot about my vision of Web 2.0 but I'm afraid it would take me far too much time to compose something in Dutch.

How and where can web logs be used?

I do think that web logs can be (and are increasingly being) used by libraries, both internally, by the library professionals and externally, as a means of relaying information to the library users and receiving feed back from them.

Internally, we can use the web log to improve communication between colleagues, particularly as many of the staff work on a part time basis. This is not only relevant for those in management, who can use it to exchange information with fellow professionals but also for myself and the other administrative staff within the library.
For example, the log book which we use at the issue desk could be digitalised and become an "uitleen weblog," to which we could all add current information as we go along.We could have a section on "Tips en Trucs met de klant,"(as long as only we can read it!) which we usually discuss at meetings. Any 'storingen' or 'aanpassingen' in BICAT could be added too. It would need to have a manager though.
Another aspect of internal use could be of a more personal nature, paying attention to birthdays or brainstorming ideas for our 'Dagje uit.'

Externally,we can provide our users with the most up to date information. The staff on the Information desk will benefit from keeping a blog with current RSS feeds, links to websites and wiki's, not to mention ebooks and ejournals.
The individual subject librarians will be able to use a web log for marketing our library events and resources. They can use the Photo' editors for making announcements and recording events, as has just been shown by Loesje's slide presentation of last year's 'Kinderboekenweekfeest.'
We will need to keep up to date with all aspects of copyright and privacy though.

Finally, I think that the Children's library is perhaps the area in which the web log can be used most effectively. I've previously been sceptical about the 'Google generation,' believing that computers are interfering with children's ability to develop core skills such as reading and writing but I have to accept that children respond well to computers. They see them as,'cool' and as Penny Garrod writes in her article,"Web logs: Do they belong in libraries?"
'Web logging in a controlled environment can provide young people with a safe, shared web space in which to develop writing skills and share experiences.' This is how they are being used in schools and we could use a web log for children to write book reviews and to recommend books to each other. Children could have creative blogs where they compose poems together(as Michael Rosen has encouraged in the U.K)
Penny Garrod concludes her article,
'Web logs can, and should be , fun- which is perhaps why they appeal to children and are being used by children's libraries.'
The photo' is from Flickr, 'Kids using the computer by San Jose library.'