Answer Boards and Social Searching

I have once browsed Yahoo Answers hoping to find the answer for unlocking region code from my Hitachi DVD player, and found the answer for the particular brand and model. Thanks for the information, I successfully got my DVD player unlocked! On the other hand, it is true that a lot of answers provided are vague and based on personal opinion. So it would be fantastic that information professionals like librarians provide answers based on authoritative resources. But hang on, librarians are very busy people and full of questions at hands. So why they bother to go out to find more questions??

Del.icio.us and Technorati

This is a great tool for reference enquiries. I have been collecting the useful weblinks as reference tools and for frequently asked questions. Del.icio.us enables me to access the collection of the links from any internet computers. However, when it comes to library customer, I wonder how many people would actually use the Southerlnd Shire Library's links?

I had a quick browse of Technorati and found many interesting sites. I got different search results for each search. The 'nswpln2008' only brought up a few listings.

YouTube: How to Make Sushi

It took me hours to complete the task but I did it! Let's sit back and enjoy watching a master of sushi's wonderful work.

Wikis

I enjoyed seeing wiki applications in libraries, especially book reviews by the Princeton Public Library "BookLovers Wiki". I envy the library staff of Aritioch Uni New England where the library staff manual wiki is available. I also saw the community wiki used for providing local history. They are all good examples of the collaborative features of wikis'.

Although there are great concerns of applying wikis to medical information or other academic areas in which sound information is required by the professionals, I believe that wikis still have the potential to become great resource of information in public libraries.