Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Comp task 3 create a website school library

Must be hosted with an external provider
Hosting must be free or very low cost
Has to be secure and hosted by a reputable organisation

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

List 5 different resources libraries use when creating their own website


Comp task 1 web subject

Include an entry which points to at least 5 different resources libraries could use  when creating their own website.
Have a look at the google site tutorial on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMahtf_X5sU


Have a look at weebly to create a website
http://www.weebly.com/features/

View a slideshare presentation on building a library website with wordpress
http://www.slideshare.net/nengard/building-a-library-website-with-wordpress


How to build a website using dream weaver
http://www.using-dreamweaver.com/building-a-website-using-dreamweaver/create-a-library-item-in-dreamweaver.html


Create a website using open source content management system
http://eprints.rclis.org/15230/1/Creating%20Library%20Website%20Using%20Open%20Source%20Content%20Management%20System.pdf


Creating a library website using Joomla
 http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4226


Learning the city | State Library of Victoria

Monday, 14 October 2013


Victoria University, Australia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_University,_Australia

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Comp task 2 Social Media re - blogging

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Comp task 2 social media re blogging

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Comp task 2  social Media  re blogging

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Comp task 2 Web design 
Find a library related organisation who uses multiple social media platforms to communicate with the users. Create a blog post explaining how they use the different platforms for different purposes.  Do they put the same information on all platforms or do they tailor it to suit a different types of social media to talk about the same topic eg and event they are running what differences are there in the messages posted on different platforms?
I looked at Hobsons Bay Library, Yarra Plenty Regional Library and Victoria University Library.

Hobson Bay and Yarra Plenty Libraries were very similar in their approach to social media platforms and same focus as customers to a public library.  VU has  the academic focus.

Hobson Bay Library social media platform are Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Facebook and Twitter share similar information although twitters tweets are very short and to the point.  They share competitions, upcoming events such as picnic day, questionaires, have the same photo's - teddy bear picnic, story time information, authors visits and council news.
YouTube has some similar contents with instructional video's, how to join the library, training video's and local events with Williamstown's first birthday on YouTube.

Yarra Plenty Regional Library social media platforms are Facebook, Twitter and a blog.  On all sites they have events like nobel prize in literature winner, photo's, e-resources and videos.

Victoria University Library social media platforms are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

VU facebook page has chit chat from students, events coming up and held like pink ribbon day and what is going on campus.
Twitter has reviews like the malthouse theatre, information sessions, whats on events and the bike hub general information.  An informative site to let students know what is going on.

LinkedIn has events in campus with photo's, products and service courses at uni and employee insight.

YouTube focus is to inform and in.  You have getting ready for V U., Vice Chancellors welcome, open day and general uni information at different campuses.
Comp task 2 web design


Explain the benefits and negative aspects of organisations posting information across a number of different social media platforms.

Benefits are getting your information to lots people who only use one social media platform.
 Having RSS feeds means you get the information as soon as it is posted.

Negative is people get the same message from all their social media platforms.  Frustrating!!