Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Rollyo

At first glance I wasn't sure that Rollyo would be something I would use but as I got working with it I started to think of some possible applications for it. For example, our library website does not have a search capability. I created a Searchroll that includes our website, the City website and theowen.com (I'll add more Owen Sound specific sites later). Now I can search across all these sites at once (and ONLY these sites) to find city related information that I know I can trust.

I also find myself checking other libraries' websites to see how they are doing things especially things related to Unicorn and public access computers. I have all the Ontario Library Consortium libraries in my favourites but I have to look at each one individually. With the OLC Libraries Searchroll that I created, I can now search across 20+ libraries (once I get them all entered) for something like 'wireless' and see what the other libraries are doing all in one searchlist. Pretty cool. Thanks to Rollyo and Library 2.0!

3 comments:

Tim said...

Chris,

This is so cool! The advantage is that because you did the work of creating the searchroll... others can use it to save time and search too!!!

Thanks - Tim

Judy Beth Armstrong said...

Chris,
This is so exciting! Thanks for exploring -- and then explaining it to all of us. Too cool!
Judy

Beth said...

This is neat Chris - thanks for creating this searchroll!
Beth