Week 5

Well, this week was Social Bookmarking. I had a problem playing the video and had to resort to changing browsers to hear it. Don't know why. I already have a delicious account but haven't updated for a while. I did however, for the first time, add someone to my network. I added Alexandra since she posted her Delicious address in comments. Thanks Alexandra if you're reading.

In my Saturday's How to Really Find Information workshop, when I was trying to close the training room, one of my students wanted to show another student how to use Mango. She was really enthusiastic. Of course, I let her, but I was surprised that she knew about and had used it. So I asked her and she said she saw a poster on the first floor. Proof positive that advertising works and that one of the biggest problems with the nonuse of our databases is that we do not advertise them. If anyone has any good ideas on how they can advertise the databases, please do it. I feel we might lose some of our databases because they are not used enough. Particularly Learning Express which has TOEFL books and practice which people are always asking for.

Two examples of advertising that we are doing or planning to do at Main Reference. We now give a workshop called Have You Used Library PressDisplay? I think it does help to increase the awareness of this resource. Also we are planning to create email signatures to attach to some of our reference email answers. Every little bit helps.