The end

Overall I have found the course fun to do and very interesting.

It has been useful on a personal level as I had never Blogged or Twitted before starting the course and I have learnt about resources I didn’t know exist e.g. Prezi. I also really liked NetVibes.

Like many other participants I think the main issue has been IT departments blocking access to various resources.

From a library point of view I would like to use Prezi for a virtual library tour. I will also look at NetVibes as a Library Internet site and make more use of Alerts for help with current awareness services.

I also think library staff have a role in making users aware of these different resources and encouraging them to use them.

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I can see these tools being used by our library users who visit our Internet café as it will allow them to save web sites they have found at work and then can access at home.

For the library it is a useful way of sharing useful websites with our users. However, as Delicious does not allow the websites to be arranged in categories then we are relying on tagging so I think for this to be useful the library needs to agree which tags to use and then share these with the users.

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Library users may find the Zotero software more useful as they can export their literature search results from EBSCO databases and also use some of the default styles if they are writing articles for professional journals.

Although I was unable to download the software onto my PC I did find these sites which compare the two different packages:-

This one is from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School Library

http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/infolib/2012/10/29/zotero-versus-mendeley-2/

This is from the HLWIKI International:-

http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Zotero_vs._Mendeley

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As feared these sites are blocked by our IT Department. However, looking at them, at home I liked the versatility of Prezi though I think it may me a while to get to grips with the software.

The major advantage I can see with Slideshow is that a presentation can be accessed anywhere. However, as most presentations we do are tailored to a specific user group I don’t know how useful they would be to the general public.

Keele University Health library has used Prezi for a virtual tour of their library which I think is a really good idea.

See:- http://prezi.com/_ochai9euo-w/health-library-interactive-map

It does zoom in an out quite a lot though.

A site I prefer is this one:-

http://prezi.com/vs6khgzkt3-g/designing-a-library-for-2020-mcca

as it is less disorientating.

Other useful Prezi presentations:-

http://prezi.com/djfnqgkabquu/eresources-librarian

http://prezi.com/wyw0nh9iri5l/getting-started-at-the-health-library

http://prezi.com/l-wvs_hcaw-3/training-map-for-the-health-library

Prezi guide

http://www.scribd.com/doc/52056677/Prezi-Guide