Delany College Library
Hi All!
You may like to check out how far we have got in developing an online school library with a web 2.0 focus.
We invite you to consider collaboration with our students.
We have 2 types of delicious account - one is for student links and is arranged in curriculum bundles. I hide links for tasks that have finished so the site is not too unwieldy. Th doorway to the other is through the 'Visual delicious' button. Click anywhere to gain access to my personal links. My delicious name is also 'awapuni'. Consider adding to my network if you are interested in my area of interest. Smile! I enjoy browsing my network links - its like an online magazine.
We have a union catalogue in this diocese and there is no freedom to adjust or add subject headings, so we are using LIBRARYTHING as a way to tag books using user-friendly tags. Not to say that all our tags are not in the catalogue,but we do not use them with the same precision. The Readers Group are taking over tagging in a few weeks. Some students have their own LT accounts, but all need to understand tagging before they get their LT licence.
We actually had a couple of hundred in LT, but we 'lost' them and I mistakenly thought it was a student act. Not so - LT can be unstable. If this happens, contact LT immediately and they can rescue them for you.

UPDATE: In the time I have been away, the group has been tagging. The 50 tags we display now include various anomolies. However... in a library 2.0 environment, do I value correctness over involvement? I can see a really interesting Book Club discussion coming up - they can work out how to deal with this!

We don't have a wiki yet. Why? Because I haven't gotten my head around wikis yet. I do not add services without a clear vision, and so far, I have not got a vision for our wiki - but I live in hope.
LATEST NEWS: We have a wiki now. It is at http://highschoolreaders.wetpaint.com/ . It is only a baby, but watch our progress.

We are now adding sound files, but have yet to venture into movies.

UPDATE: Check out the sound file from the students from Danum in Doncaster, who are keen to join with Delany Book Club in the future. Several schools are interested in this, including a middle school in Pennsylvania.


We have a couple of blogs and the library one is keeping track of my travels. Thanks for all the fresh ideas from the conference. Good to meet you all.
You can always contact me through the website, and I am always grateful for feedback and suggestions as I struggle to get some consistency and stability in the site.

Jan from Delany!