A presentation on Team A : Library Studies blog experience

1. 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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. BLOG SNAPSHOT

5. ADDING BLOG AUTHORS
 The authors were added by going through
‘Permissions’ under ‘Settings’ and sending an
invitation through the author’s email…

6. POSTS ON THE BLOG

7. 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.

8. WRITE-UP 1: VISIT AT THE ARCHIVES
OF THE
ARCHBISHOP OF MALTA
 New Post

9. WRITE-UP 1
 App on
smartphone

10. 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

11. WRITE-UP 1
 Title
 Content
 Take/Upload a
picture

12. WRITE-UP 1
 Put the title,
content,
uploaded the
pictures

13. WRITE-UP 1
 Publish the Post

14. WRITE-UP 1
 Text came up
aligned
 Pictures with
a border

15. 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.

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

17. WRITE-UP 3
 Copied text from
Word and pasted in
an email to myself
 Opened the email
on smartphone
 Copied text from
email

18. WRITE-UP 3
 Pasted the text on
the Blog

19. WRITE-UP 3
 Uploaded a picture

20. WRITE-UP 3
 Published the
Post

21. WRITE-UP 3
 Text was not
aligned
 Quotation was
not italics

22. WRITE-UP 3
 Edit Post facility

23. WRITE-UP 3
 Align
 Quotation in italics

24. WRITE-UP 3

25. EDITING WRITE-UP 1
 Edited the Post
 Clicked
 Uploaded the
video

26. EDITING ADDRESS + AUTHORS

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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.