Eee - books!

This week we have been rewarded with yummy macaroons (delicious!!) in the staff room so I thought I better shake a leg and finally finish my e-books post!

I had a play with finding e-books on Newton...I used Literature Online a few years back but it was good to get a thorough refresher and have a nose at what Cambridge has to offer. Also interesting to have a browse through NHS e-books and see what they had in comparison. Lastly, I had a look at the most popular book as of yesterday on Project Guttenberg - "How to analyse people on sight" (Ooh er). Then I looked at "The tale of Peter Rabbit" to see how the quality of the illustrations differed to looking at them in paper format (answer = quality was good!) However, whilst I have used e-books in the past and would continue to be quite happy to dip into using them for work purposes, I don't think I'd like to read a book for pleasure on an e-book device. I think the novelty would wear thin for me. E-books are great if you haven't got access or time to nip into the library for the physical copy of the book. E-book readers and kindles are quite tempting but I think I prefer to read novels etc off-screen, for now! Although one would be handy on the move and would save me space on the bookshelf...anyone care to lend me one so I can try it out ;-) ?

Docs and Wiki's part 2

I can happily direct you here for my previous post on Thing 20 (Google Docs) and 22 (Wikis) for the Cam 23 Things programme. The MedLib crossover is now paying off!

Since writing that post at the end of June, I've continued to explore and use Google Docs on and off. I'm really glad I was introduced to this...so handy. As for Wikis, we're now using pbworks for our staff meeting agenda and also for the summer UL quiz. As I said in my previous post, I still think wiki's are great for collaborating together to form a wealth of knowledge. The Library Routes wiki is another good example of this.