Calendars again

Google docs calendar for the new year. With GoogleDocs for spreadsheets, forms, presentations and templates, its making buying expensive software obsolete.

Caloundra calendar

The wreck at Dickey beach - Yewenyi.


Mash Ups need high quality software to manipulate picture/text/calendar, will research to locate software that allows this eg calendar could have daily Caloundra diary -

1st January, Ann Street platform, coffee rocks, remnants of coastal plain of last ice age when aborigines lived here 30 k to the east, wind west/southwest, swell long lines 4', sea aqua blue, perfect and no one out!


This image is Dee Why. Take out the crowds, drop the swell size by 3', and you know what I mean! (image - Dave Hunt - Sydney).

2nd January, surf dropping, rock hopping, Moffatt Point platform.

3rd January, Pa Bendall, DVD, Caloundra library.

4th January, climbed North Queensland fig, Moffatt Beach. Brahminy kites flying off cliff tops.

Slamming the boards

There is an answer board for librarians at wetpaint.com. For the Brisbane Square library I think a library blog - interactive if possible - would be best for providing information on events and services with videos and pictures enriching the content.
An answer board would be great as a feedback post where customers could feed comments and have them answered by librarians. Vodcasts and podcasts have huge potential to enliven our library website and promote and report on events, programmes and services.

Social bookmarking

This is a great way to organise links and bookmarks and to find out what others are researching at the same time. My beginning is the ABC aboriginal site.

I'm reading an excellent book at the moment "The Mardu Aborigines living the dream in Australias desert" by Robert Tonkinson. Although first published in 1978 and revised in 1991 the information it contains and insights are as fresh as the day were written which just goes to show that obsolescence is not a necessary corollary of non fiction writing.