Put a photo of your pet on the wiki

Erik the Viking has graced many web pages including the Swinburne Library Staff Wiki. Here he poses wearing a lovely tartan scarf. Don't let Dr. Hugh Wirth see this one!!!

Google Book Search: Making all the world's books fully searchable????

I have known about the ambitious Google Book Search project for ages, in fact, I attended a paper by Daniel Clancy Engineering Director, Google at VALA 2006. Here is the Podcast of his presentation. The size of the project just amazes me. They have a cast of thousands (based at many of the larger university libraries in the USA) working on it.

Play with Google Docs

We have been using this tool to share documents and spreadsheets for the ARROW Project for a couple of years now but I worry about the security of our documents and their safety. While Google Docs is great for sharing documents - particularly if you are part of a large distributed team - using it to archive your documents is NOT a good idea. I would highly recommend keeping a back-up of all files you submit as you really don't know if they'll be there tomorrow!