Saturday!!

Woo hoo!

Well it's Saturday...nothing too special or library school related however, I should maybe do some work on the Wiki thing...might install a wiki on my hard drive :) See if that works...other than that...no big plans, laundry that's it!

I think this post will be short! nothing too interesting in my life right now. Hope things get better soon :p

Cheers all,

Jer l'Acadien

the dreaded friday...

Here goes another fun day!!

Had my Wiki meeting this morning and as it goes, we cannot install Media Wiki here as it requires PHP5 and we only have version 4....the fun! At the moment, trying to figure out if we can have some dedicated server for this project and could install the wiki program and php5, with minimal tech support...the fun life! Also, the committee director is also hoping to have a wiki with content running on Tuesday for the DM's visit (crazyness!!), and he has charged me with inputting the info in the wiki when it gets up!! WOW....pretty big task at hand! the future seems quite inditerminate with this Wiki. Anywho, that's my friday fun!

To top this day...it's horrid weather out there!! really crappy! was freezing rain/hail this morning and now it's white out snowing! urghhhh!! but oh well!

At least the weekend is here :)....well this is it for now!

Cheers,

Jer l'Acadien!

Wiki vs Phoenix....

This morning on the bus, I initiated a conversation with an NRCan employee and told him about what I was doing at work. When I told him about the Wiki, he was like, well you should check out Phoenix, it's a much better option,..... So I followed him to his office and he showed me the developments of Phoenix (http://www.decisiontools.ca/)...his comments and concerns were quite valid as NRCan has to deal a lot with Maps, and other geodata, and his concern was with Wikis being able to support any type of software or capabilities to manipulate, etc maps.... The program which runs through Phoenix is very special as it has all of the technological advantages of using map softaware (which is already intergrated), plus it has a lot of portal oppertunities, which seem quite interesting. And on top of things, you have to imagine that this software was develloped in South America, by countries who used it for National Security measures in the case of emergencies, etc... pretty interesting! Anywho, that has been my first part of the day...

Later this afternoon, I am headed to the National War Museum for a presentation on their collection by a librarian or archivist (not sure yet), but should be interesting nonetheless, and it's Thursday which means that the museum is free after 4pm, so it should make an interesting early evening!

Cheers,

Jer l'Acadien!

Another day at the coop job....

Well here I am bored again...

I am at work, and bored....one of the staff was away on vacation for over 5 weeks and decided to come back early as she was supposed to be away for 8 weeks, so now my duties have gone to being busy with cataloguing, ILL and other stuff, to just nothing! Well that's not true, I do have some things to do, but I think I will have som long days ahead! So I figured why not work on my Blog :)

***********So to anyone reading this, please leave me a note, telling me that you are existing! and that I am not writing this for no one. ***************

In regards to my work here...well I guess my main project at the moment is related to a Wiki project for NRCan. NRCan has decided to support and create a Wiki for it's employees. The Wiki is supposed to be part of the Knowledge Enterprise project of NRCan. Basiclally, the Wiki will contain all the information about NRCan which could be useful for employees, but also the wiki could act as a tool to promote and allow groups to share information and work on projects. My role in this project is still undetermined, I am a library representative, and I believe the library could have a large stake in this enterprise as being a key information medium.

Well enough slacking and back to doing...well it's almost lunch time..so might as well go eat soon :)