bibliography including annotated citations

Arizona State University Libraries. 2010. Digital Antiquity: Transforming Archaeological Data into Knowledge, Library Channel. [podcast] 08 Apr. Available at: https://lib.asu.edu/librarychannel/2010/04/08/ep104_digantiquity [Accessed: 14 Aug 2013].
 

This podcast is authoritative as it is run by the University of Arizona with a host of the podcasting being a librarian at the university. The guest speakers for this episode are the Executive Director of Digital Antiquity and Associate Director and Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

The main purpose of the podcast is to discuss how libraries and archives can be used to assist in the work being conducted at the university and to educate the listener / watcher about these activities. This episode looks at the use of digital photos in research and how it is important to ensure that he images remain accessible as technology progresses.
As the guests are talking about an organisation that they run, they could be biased in favour of the use of this technology. They however explain the benefits that it offers.
The intended audience consists of the staff and students of Arizona State University mainly so they technical details is pitched at a suitable level.
This podcast series provides a good overview of the services that the libraries provide to the university and demonstrates the value that libraries have in educational institutions.


Carstensen, A. and M. Flowers, 2012. Adult Books 4 Teens — @AngeReads and @droogmark A School Library Journal Blog. [online] Available at: http://blogs.slj.com/adult4teen/ [Accessed: 25 Jul 2013].

This blog is authoritative as the two authors primarily responsible for the content the blog entry are librarians working in areas that involve contact with young people so they have experience catering for the needs of teenage readers and editing or peer reviewing books relating to assisting libraries to better service teenage readers.

The main purpose of the blog is providing librarians in school and public libraries which provide reading resources to teenagers with information that they need to evaluate how useful certain books written for adults will be to their teenage clients and to assist the librarian in making recommendations for purchases.

The presence of advertisements in the blog appear to have been placed there as part of the School library Journal’s hosting of the blog so do not indicate bias. The authors also have chosen to avoid negative reviews to avoid biasing their readers against any particular book.
The blog is intended to be read by librarians working with young people but should be accessible to some teenagers as well.
This blog is well written and covers a wide range of topics and genres. The positive approach in selecting reviews is a good example to the readers.


Facebook - CWI Library. 2013. CWI Library. [online] Available at: https://www.facebook.com/#!/CWILibrary?fref=ts [Accessed: 3 Sep 2013].

 

The authority of this facebook page is established by the fact that it is authored by a library connected to an educational facility and who are writing about the library, its services and suggestions for e-books.
The purpose of this facebook page is to facilitate the CWI Library to provide their clients with information on the services on offer and events. The scope of the facebook page covers the activities of the library and information they believe will be of benefit to their clients.
There does not appear to be any biases in the facebook page.
The intended audience for this facebook page is the staff and students of the College of Western Idaho. The language used in the posts is generally at a level that teenagers and adults should understand. In some posts there is language of a more advanced level due to the subject being discussed.
This facebook page would be a useful resource to the staff and students of CWI due to the information it contains and the links to potentially useful e-books.


Flickr. n.d.. eBook Devices Poster. [online] Available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/salemmapubliclibrary/8372226535/# [Accessed: 06 Aug 2013].

The image has been created by the Salem Public Library about an event at their library so the image is highly authoritative.

The image is a simple notice of the sort of services that the Salem Public Library has to assist their clients. Therefore has limited scope and a fairly clear purpose.

As it is as a plain notice with simple information there is no bias that can be detected.
The notice portrayed in the image contains information written clearly which adults should have little trouble with. The notice appears to be aimed primarily at adults with the image being aimed at other librarians looking for examples of notices to gain some ideas to use in their library.

This image may not be particularly interesting to look at but it is a good reminder of the role of libraries and the services they offer to the community.

Richmondtown Library. 2007. Do You Want to be a Librarian?. [video online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGccQFxi3U&list=WLwLXwEtcTlIvae_hQ1zA4wb9U5ThQABZR [Accessed: 20 Aug 2013].

The authority of the original creators of the video is established by the film having been created in conjunction with Iowa State College’s Professor of Vocational Education, Arthur Twogood. He was partly responsible for the Colleges education programs so would have been knowledgeable of the library sciences. He also determined what information was going to be in the video. The video was uploaded by the Richmondtown Library which is part of the New York Public Library so they would be in a position to judge the relevance of the video to the modern library environment.

The purpose of the video being uploaded to YouTube could be to provide viewers with a historical perspective on the library and to show how the core functions of the library have remaindered unchanged despite changes in technology.

As the video has been placed on YouTube with no restrictions on access, the intended audience can be assumed to be everyone. The intended audience would originally have been teenagers deciding which career to pursue.

The video provides an interesting historical perspective on the role of the librarian and a good reminder that the key role of the library is to serve the community.


Twitter.com. 2013. Bodleian Libraries (bodleianlibs) on Twitter. [online] Available at: https://twitter.com/bodleianlibs [Accessed: 27 Aug 2013].

The authority of this twitter feed is established by the fact that it is from a group of university libraries and covers topics / news about the happenings and the services on offer. The authority is enhanced by the fact that the Bodleian Libraries are part of the University of Oxford which is one of the most highly respected universities in the world.
The main purpose of the twitter feed is to assist in keeping the staff and students of the University of Oxford up to date with the activities and services of the libraries and special events. The scope of the twitter feed covers all of the libraries’ activities and services.
No biases could be detected in the twitter feed.
The intended audience is primarily the staff and students of the University of Oxford. However there are several tweets that appear to be directed at the general public.
This Twitter account is set to follow a number of other twitter feeds associated with the library staff, the University of Oxford and other libraries.
This twitter feed could be invaluable to the staff and students of the University of Oxford in regard to changes in the services of the libraries.


Wiki.canterbury.ac.nz. 2012. Electronic Books - Library Wiki - Confluence. [online] Available at: https://wiki.canterbury.ac.nz/display/LIBRARY/Electronic+Books [Accessed: 13 Aug 2013].

The authority of this wiki is established by the fact that it has been created by the staff at the University of Canterbury, contains a number of links to various parts of the university’s website and several pages are restricted to their staff and students.

The purpose of this wiki is to assist the staff and students at University of Canterbury to access e-books by providing information and an access point to searching for them.

The intended audience for this wiki are tertiary students and academics so they can be reasonably expected to have good reading skills so this wiki is pitched at a level appropriate to facilitate quick understanding of the information contain in it.

The wiki is well set out and allows users to quickly find the information they need on the main page or the link which will take them to the appropriate page. 

YALSA. 2013. YALSA. [online] Available at: http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/ [Accessed: 31 Jul 2013].

The YALSA blog is established as being authoritative due in part to the organisation being a division of the American Libraries Association and partly due to the procedures used to determine that only suitably qualified bloggers can submit posts which have to meet certain standards. The comments are also subjected to those standards and are moderated by the blog manager.
The stated purpose of the blog is to provide a means of publishing information about issues relevant to the young adult librarianship community.
The blog site contains only two ads which are both for YALSA projects so indicates independence of the blog from outside influences.
The blog is aimed primarily at library staff serving young adults and their clients.
This is a useful blog to subscribe to as there is a range of information to interest staff and student alike with the RSS feed including images to help break up the text.