final post

i got an email from the cocktail builder guy (thing 19?) saying that he will consider a spinoff cocktail site using detergents: "how to poison your loved ones". so i am looking forward to that and am pleased that my voice has been heard. this course has greatly enhanced my hospitality and bartending skills as i have learnt that there is an infinite spirit-infused world beyond the cosmopolitan and the g&t.

many libraries have some time to go before we can incorporate these technologies as service offerings. for example, at yarra we cant use delicious tagging - basically any 3rd party application - because they pose a real security risk, and there are understandable bandwith issues for podcasting and youtube. but at the very least our council IT department now understands that libraries are pushing for these things and will continue to do so.

my suggestions for enhancing the course would be to update the 'things' for forthcoming courses to include things such as the concept of vodcasting inthe youtube section, and social networking sites such as facebook which have come good library related applications. also to provide (or look into at least) alternatives to track staff progress for staff who do not wish to blog, because this has perhaps been one of the biggest hinderances to progress and a point on contention for some people.

most importantly i have enjoyed reading my colleagues' blogs. there is such a diversity of interest out there. i hope that they continue blogging about things that they are passionate about. maybe the SLV could create a listing of staff blogs across all the vic public library services who wish to share their blogs with each other and continue writing?

Lynette and Leslie - a pesonal thank you for your work in getting this set up and your monitoring of progress i can see that it really is an enourmous task and victorian public libraries have been really fortunate to have had the opportunity to do this course, even though I moaned about a couple of things.