Save the Sydney Opera House!!!!

So I might be being a bit of a geek here. I wanted to experiment with loading video files to blogs. Here is a great one about saving the Sydney Opera House by following digital preservation standards (told you I was being geek-y).



You can find more Digi-Man and Team Digital Preservation videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/wepreserve#p/u

Things to remember when we move

Be careful which brackets connecting shelves together we undo. The results might be rather domino like otherwise.

An aside

Photos make blogs so much more intersting!!

A library in a box

I came accross a few interesting articles on small libraries.

How about a library in a phone box? Sounds a bit like our book swap - anyone out there got a phone box that we could put to use?

Or, how about a library in a vending machine? The logistics of this make me think it might not be worth it, but interesting concept.

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Acronyms

After all the pain of trying to think in acronyms yesterday I had to share this one I found this morning. I happened to be looking for a specific quote from the movie The Princess Bride and in the process found the following.

[after Westley rescues Butter cup from the lightning quicksand]
Buttercup: We'll never succeed. We may as well die here.
Westley: No, no. We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like, so in the future we can avoid that too.
Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s?
Westley: Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
[Immediately, an R.O.U.S. attacks him]

GL WI IM, PIR make me ROFL

Having fun with IM, but it is doing my head in trying to keep up with 5 plus conversations and learn this new language of acronyms. I can imagine it being a great waste of time!! I'm loving all the creative acronyms the people in my Web 2.0 class came up with, I'm not so good at it but it is lots of fun being silly...now I'm off to GBTW!!!

Wikis

Today we have been learning about wikis. Having created my So what does a ... do all day? page I went hunting for mistakes to fix. Found a couple of spelling mistakes on the Evidence Based Library and Information Practice page and fixed them up.

Now I'm hunting for wikis of interest to me. Found a great travel wiki, given my interest in Central Asia there are some great pages there for me to read and add to.