Friday, 9 July 2010

So much for good resolutions!

Somehow doing one "Thing" a day to catch up didn't quite work... but I'm almost there and I'm so grateful for this week of reflection.

I enjoyed a browse around Delicious and thought that Stanford's Green Library page was excellent. This is a great way to provide links to specialist resources and to share them with others.

I can see that Delicious would be particularly useful for Faculty Libraries because they have a specific subject focus and the librarians have specialist knowledge (so it's great to see the libraries of the Judge and Philosophy using Delicious). For a College (generalist) library it is possibly less useful, given the number of subjects we cover. Also, it is not so useful to duplicate effort put in by more specialist libraries! However, I can see the benefit of using Delicious for supporting scholars using our Old Library and special collections.

I particularly enjoyed Emma's links to knitting patterns and this has prompted me to join Ravelry - a knitting site I heard about a while ago! OK, it's not work - but don't they say "All work and no play..."?
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  1. Katie Birkwood13 July 2010 at 12:52

    Ravelry is great. I'm girlinthemoon over there (surprise, surprise)!

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  2. Libby Tilley16 July 2010 at 18:45

    Ravelry is wonderful! Great recommendation......

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  3. Dominique10 August 2010 at 12:51

    Great to find some fellow knitters! I have taken a pause in knitting a cardigan (oh no, can I get any more stereotyped as a librarian than this?!). Instead I've been knitting 'Busy Bees' (little bee pins) which are sold in aid of the Folk Museum. Children love them and I managed to sell 18 at the local Summer Fayre!

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