Swansea Libraries Project

Our project was to create a wiki or mini-website for Swansea Libraries staff, to include communication tools as well as useful resources for staff, to help them plan events and displays in their libraries. Staff will need to login to view the pages so they will not be accessible to the public. We used Google Sites to create the pages, adapting an existing template to reflect the branding style and colours of our library service.


The pages include;


Bulletin



The Home page, a summary of the rest of the site, a like button for our Facebook page and a gadget displaying the Swansea Libraries Twitter Feed



A Google document for library staff to amend to include their library event listings, this will then be submitted to the local ‘What’s On’ magazine



A bulletin board to help keep staff informed about new Service information, they will be notified automatically by email when new information is posted, but can easily refer back to it here



Calendar

 A Google calendar showing events, festivals and national campaigns that may be useful for staff, each event includes basic information and a relevant weblink

The Swansea Libraries public blog, embedded as an RSS feed




And finally an ever increasing list of links to useful websites, subdivided by category

We discussed the pages we had created with some of the senior managers of our Library Service and they helped us to see other ways in which we could develop the site in the future and encourage staff to use it

We have started with these few pages but we would like to develop them further and create more, to provide a useful and extensive resource for all Swansea Libraries staff.

Cardiff Children's library update

Hi everyone.

Since the last training days I've used my new skills to produce a presentation for my colleagues showing how to add a blog post - we are in the process of setting up a blog for our children's and teen reading groups.
I was planning to create a screencast but our staff PCs lack sound so decided to create a powerpoint presentation as I was sure this could be viewed by everyone!

I've uploaded it to google documents so that I could embed it here (it is very simple but I hope it does the job).


I've also begun setting up a google site for some of our recommendations for books/websites. I found this really quick to use, it's getting the content up to date that is taking the longest time but I think it will make our recommendations more relevant than the paper forms they are currently in.

The skills and information from this Wise Kids training will continue to be put to use at work, improving the service for our users (hopefully!). Also personally I have really enjoyed learning about how to use these great web 2.0 technologies.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

Project

Helo everyone! As you know I'm Sian. I work in the marketing office at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. I enjoy what I do and I have learnt a great deal working in marketing over the past two years. I hope to one day complete a marketing degree. As part of my job i tweet, update Facebook and Blog on a daily basis. We also have Flikr and a You Tube channel. I found the training in Newport great, although I have a basic knowledge about the developing social media world! I have all ready written a short report emphasising what we can develop and begin to do.

After some thought i have decided to create a short presentation to my colleagues in the office on how we can develop our use of social media and also create a 'how to guide' for two of my colleagues who have never tweeted before! I will do this by using Google Documents, Slideshare, video clips and photos.

Wish me Luck!