And sampling the bible does not count as a poem…

I'm sure you believe your poem is good… we all think what we write and draw is good… but if it IS that good then why try to make money off it… you received free now give free. Beast,feast… what is the next line… "and the human flesh turned to YEAST!"

Get a job if you want to make money, have your ever seen a rich artist.

I also encouraged the audience to use their mobiles for SMS messaging & to put an earphone in one ear to experience the multi-tasking, limited attention world of today's “Netgen” or “digital natives”. Natuarally, our audience of librarians were too polite to actually do this!

Below is what was written on the sheets which we collected after the presentation.

Information RX Comment sheet A

1. At the moment, I don’t understand…

• Why we don’t share Ovid and other tutorials!

• How to market it to my clients.

• Much of the technology mentioned.

• Ditto but has stirred to interest. [sic]

• Where I should start the long list of what I don’t understand.

• So much it’s hard to know where to start.

• Why ALIA dropped the health, law and special conference (hear, hear!)

• Why this conference has neither a blog nor a wiki!!

• How to keep up with all this plus manage to transfer to clients.

• Why the info online conference is not itself live to the net!

• How so many late nights can still produce such alert speakers.

• How to keep up with all the new technologies.

• 2. I want to know more about…

• Getting widgits onto PCs at work!! It wouldn’t let me install it.

• RSS

• the above.

• How you can find the time to explore all these sites.

• What 20 technologies/services our clients will actually want/use/need and what ones just seem sexy to us.

• Blogs, wikis, life, life, the universe and everything.

• Where the high value trends are and where it is worth putting our efforts.
• Actual software for blogs, wikis and podcasts.

• How to use all the “new stuff”

3. The speaker are…

• Very nice people.

• Entertaining.

• Awesome and wizardly informed.

• Virtually interesting.

• Enthusiastic (no spell checker in the pen and paper world)

• Cartoon junkies

• Knowledgeable.

• Generous.

• Need training and encouragement in using the microphone.

• Very good – very interesting – learnt more here than online.

• Wonderful 1st day and so far today’s good too. Totally relevant.

• Great sense of humour! as well as informed.

4. Something new I am learning is…

• How to write and listen at the same time.

• The meaning of many acronyms!

• If the power goes off we’ll be in big trouble.

• The comic strip generator!

• IE 7 has RSS feeds built into it.

• There’s a whole level of expert searching out there that I want to know more about.

• That we need to be a very poor country to get Science Direct.

• That I’m now scared of claiming expert status as a searcher.

• Get out there and try!

Information RX Comment sheet B

1. In my library I may try…

• Incorporate some of the ideas discussed.

• For HealthInsite – RSS feeds for HealthInsite news items and personal
search results.
-Wiki for reviewed and editorial documentation

• Setting up podcasts of downloading instructions (as a start!)

• Look more closely at promoting use of search filters.

• New ideas from other people.

• Blogging.

• RSS

• Using search filters more often.

• Setting up blogs to read.

• Web casts

• Blogs

• Feeds out to users.

• Linking to their libraries.

• Many things…

• Having a “search exchange” eg. recent good search contributed by clients.

• Analyse of customer need to ensure training is relevant and targeted.

• A wiki for the new staff & grads.

• An analysis of search strategy and systematic review being undertaken by a researcher.

• More useful signs

• Putting library stories up.

• RSS Feeds.

• Include medical podcasts on intranet site.

• Blogs & wikis – same

• Webcam; blogs; different styles of info delivery.

• RSS, blogs, widgets.

• To get Internet Explorer 7 installed.

• Ask AGAIN about Firefox being authorised for download.

• To inspire my patrons to look in the catalogue rather than browse (too long).

2. One thing about my library that others may now know.

• You can have personal “areas of interest” searches created through a personal profile

• How have you done this?

• I sing when I’m happy.

• We achieve despite our IT department.

• We love our plants and so do our clients.

• It’s lime green and brown.

• I have a wireless Toshiba portege for reference work and mobile training.

• Lucky you! that’s a great ides.

• Apple MacBook Pro is better.

• We’re 6 libraries in 1.

• We are haunted.

• Access from home.
• Limits of access / extent of access.

• One person library.

• It’s yellow.

• Every Friday is fruit bowl Friday!

• Texting overdues on mobiles.

• The building is about 200 years old and it shows.

• Nice place to relax with a relevant journal or book.

4. If I was not here listening to this presentation on a Saturday, I’d be…

• Making peach chutney! I’m glad I’m here!

• Dragging kids around cricket, art classes and doing housework – much better to be here.

• Doing the washing!

• Driving kids to tennis.

• Washing and ironing.

• In bed watching “video hits”.

• Still sleeping.

• Having coffee at street café.

• At the cinema.

• Shopping Freo Markets.

• Farmers markets at Pyrmont.

• Playing with kids (2 & 8 year old).

• Shopping and spending time with family.

• Doing chores…but I have to do them tomorrow.
• Newspapers.

• Having a swim, latte with SMH.

• Shopping at the markets.

• Hunting and gathering.

• Booking my next holiday.

• Hanging out washing.

• Working my second job.

• Complaining about the humidity.

• Grocery shopping – yuck!

• At the beach.

• Housework!