TEAM A: LIBRARY STUDIES

Our Blogging Experience

LIS 2505

Analysis, Design and Management of Systems for Information Professionals

By : Adriana Calleja Dorianne Coleiro

Follow us on: librarypeak.blogspot.com

MY BLOGGING EXPERIENCE

This was the first time that I have used a blog. My first impression was that it would be more technical than I imagined.

The blogging tasks involved:

Creating the blog using my ‘gmail’ account,

Selecting a design and theme for our blog,

Adding the other authors of the team,

Writing about the National Library visit.

DESIGN OF THE BLOG I used a simple template that complements the background

depicting books. The template background was used specifically since the blog is about a library environment.

BLOG SNAPSHOT

ADDING BLOG AUTHORS

The authors were added by going through ‘Permissions’ under ‘Settings’ and sending an invitation through the author’s email…

POSTS ON THE BLOG

MY BLOGGING EXPERIENCE

I already had a blog account

Was the first time that I had a blog of 'my own'

Had experience in following someone else's blog from Reference Sources & Info Literacy study-unit

The blogging tasks involved:

Accepting the invitation as an author in the team's blog,

Writing about the Archives of the Archbishop of Malta,

Writing about the Information System at UoM.

WRITE-UP 1: VISIT AT THE ARCHIVES OF THE

ARCHBISHOP OF MALTA

New Post

WRITE-UP 1

App on smartphone

WRITE-UP 1

The app was associated with my gmail address

A list of the blogs I am following

Chose the blog

Uploaded New Post

WRITE-UP 1

Title Content Take/Upload a

picture

WRITE-UP 1

Put the title, content, uploaded the pictures

WRITE-UP 1

Publish the Post

WRITE-UP 1 Text came up

aligned Pictures with

a border

WRITE-UP 2: WRITING ABOUT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY VISIT

Our 2nd visit was held in Valletta’ s National Library where we were given a lecture about a tender procedure of a digitization system for online library services.

The procedure from the planning phase to the actual implementation after the tender is accepted, is not straightforward.

Many steps and policy guidelines have to be followed in order to have a successful outcome from planning to purchase.

Blog task included:

The upload of the description of the process, Photos taken during our visit.

WRITE-UP 3: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PLANNING PROCESS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A LIBRARY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

WRITE-UP 3

Copied text from Word and pasted in an email to myself

Opened the email on smartphone

Copied text from email

WRITE-UP 3

Pasted the text on the Blog

WRITE-UP 3

Uploaded a picture

WRITE-UP 3

Published the Post

WRITE-UP 3

Text was not aligned

Quotation was not italics

WRITE-UP 3

Edit Post facility

WRITE-UP 3

Align Quotation in italics

WRITE-UP 3

EDITING WRITE-UP 1

Edited the Post

Clicked

Uploaded the video

EDITING ADDRESS + AUTHORS

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Familiarity and creation of a blog,

Exposure to an online environment,

Outreach to people interested in this topic,

Teamwork and interpersonal skills,

Enhancing creativity and writing skills,

Getting feedback after posts,

Learning about different perspectives from different

people although on the same topic,

Perseverance obtaining new skills requires commitment

to strive,

Obstacles invariably need to be overcome, as well as

patience, is part of this process.

CHALLENGES

Technicality of the blog takes getting used to

especially in settings of creating the design, and

adding authors,

Despite being two people in our team we worked

well together by alternating and sharing tasks,

Overcoming technical and practical limitations,

some things proved, at the time, to be harder than

necessary,

Identifying the limiting problem and its solution is

important; it can be a practical problem or even a

psychological one.

CONCLUSION

The concept of a blogging exercise gives

exposure and online outreach with a diverse

audience,

Use of blog for different purposes,

Teamwork and interpersonal skills.