Week 8: tasks 16 - 18: search engines

Task 16: Find an archived document on the “Wayback Machine”. Post about this and other ways of finding lost websites.

Task 17: LISZEN is a customised search engine of hundreds of library blogs. List the top three sites returned from your topic of choice.

Task 18: Create your own custom engine using GoogleCSE. Discuss how this could be integrated into Moodle.

Wayback Machine http://archive.org/web/web.php: I looked for Bournemouth Libraries websites from 2005 to 2007 when I was editing it. For example I found the following:
23/04/07 
http://web.archive.org/web/20070423000118/http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/libraries
16/02/07
http://web.archive.org/web/20070216035316/http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Libraries
26/09/06
http://web.archive.org/web/20060926024319/http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Libraries

I also found this audio of Tony Benn speaking in Bournemouth Gardens in Sept 2003
http://archive.org/details/Tony_Benn_speaking_in_Bournemouth_September_2003

I am also aware of the British Library's UK Web Archive www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa which is being used to archive the CILIP website following its 2013 refresh. 
See www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/131969/source/search

and CILIP Communities at www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/65994835/source/search

As web editor of 2 local CILIP groups, and blog editor of one of these I have also archived our web pages at Archive.is http://archive.is e.g. http://archive.is/Whw9m (ARLG-S), and

http://archive.is/OoYWU (SE-H&W) and http://archive.is/cLN4K (SE-H&W Communities blog)  

LISZEN http://liszen.com: 

I searched for '23 Things'. The top 3 results were:

1. Apr 2013 "23 Mobile Things: Join the Australian / New Zealand Course" by katejf http://librariesinteract.info/2013/04/12/23-mobile-things-join-the-australian-new-zealand-course
2. Jun 2011 "Supercharge your CPD: 23 Things for Professional Development" – A TTW [Tame the Web] guest post by Maria Giovanna De Simone http://tametheweb.com/2011/06/20/supercharge-your-cpd-23-things-for-professional-development-a-ttw-guest-post-by-maria-giovanna-de-simone
3. Aug 2011 "Beyond 23 Things: Enhanced Self-Paced Training" posted by Jennifer
    http://blog.webjunctionworks.org/index.php/2011/08/11/beyond-23-things-enhanced-self-paced-training

Google CSE (Custom Search Engine) www.google.com/cse: I created a custom search engine that searches 8 Dorset and Hampshire newspaper websites e.g. Bournemouth Echo www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=013894997405035377614:qjsiyva_wly I can use this to search for news stories about local libraries for one of my other blogs.

In 2011 I found one that I shared with Popular Music Technology students in a session:  www.google.com/cse/home?cx=007990972803243645986:e6r-qn3sehy

A Google CSE could be created for each College subject area to search all their 'useful websites' that are not password protected and the link put on their Moodle subject page.

Week 7: tasks 13 - 15: file sharing and collaboration

Task 13: explore Google Docs and Drop Box. Create and upload a document in one of these and share it with some of your 23 Things colleagues.

Task 14: explore and blog about Zotero; a citation management system with the advantage of being able to save resources in multiple formats (journal articles, PDFs, PowerPoint, images, webpages and podcasts).

Task 15: explore existing wikis such as LISWiki (www.liswiki.org) and read Noodle's article on using wikis as an intranet (www.vialect.com/ways-to-use-wikis-in-your-intranet). Post the advantages and disadvantages of using wikis as a library intranet.

Google Drive (which was Google Docs until 2012) https://drive.google.com: I first uploaded a document to my  in 2007, a Word .doc. In my work with CILIP SE Hants&Wight I also have access to shared documents in a Google Drive by logging in to ciliphw@googlemail.com.

Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com: I signed up to and downloaded Dropbox in December 2012 at the request of Richard Hawkins, CILIP's Online Information Manager, for CILIP's Website Refresh Project which I am involved in as I am the web editor for both the SE Hants&Wight sub-branch and the ARLG Southern sub-group:

"Access to Documents and Images from the Current Website: All the documents and images (including publications such as newsletters etc) from your branch and group web pages are now available to you via a Dropbox folder. If you require access to these files please let me know and I will share the appropriate Dropbox folder with you so you can download them (you will need to sign up with Dropbox if you haven’t already). Please therefore reply and provide me with the email address you used to register your Dropbox account as I need this to enable the sharing to take place, and state which branch or group’s files you require access too. Many of the files will be available in the future via the British Library Web Archive copy of the current site. However some documents saved in member-only pages will not be available so unless you have a complete record yourself you might want to download the Dropbox back-up before the current website becomes unavailable."

Zotero www.zotero.org: You have to sign up and then download a browser plug-in - these are available for Firefox, Chrome and Apple's Safari (and ZotPad app in iPad for £7). This looks like a useful online store for researchers who want to collect, organise, and share oline articles and book references from online library catalogues etc. that they've found.

Wikis: LISWiki's content is patchy; lots about some topics while little or nothing on others. But it does indicate the potential of an informative website where many people log in and share what they know about certain topics, and so build up a reference resource (like Wikipedia).

Week 6: task 12: podcasting and videos

Find and listen to some podcasts and search some of the “Common Craft” videos on YouTube. Discuss some of these on your blog.

I have listened to many podcasts since they first appeared about 10 years ago; both those from and about libraries or work e.g. http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/podcasts/default.aspx and http://www.bl.uk/podcast and those for general entertainment e.g. www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts.

I found and used the Common Craft (on YouTube www.youtube.com/user/commoncraft) video on Search Strategies www.commoncraft.com/video/web-search-strategies in my 'Web Evaluation and eSafety (including advanced web search)' Information Skills sessions from 2011 to 2012, before it was decided to stop running this session with our students.