Mashups

I can certainly see the relevance of mashups in our libraries for local history projects in particular (like mapping significant historical buildings or adding voice threads to photos of items in online exhibitions). I can also see how Big Huge Labs could be used for creating cool promotional items. I really enjoyed this website and will revisit it to explore it further. I can't believe how easy it was to create my cool little calendar below. Prior to NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 I would never have known that tools like this are freely available on the net.

Because Readers Advisory work is the favourite part of my day as a Librarian I started thinking how mashups could be applied to RA. I would love to see a mashup that maps books set in different countries, as I sometimes have inquiries from people who have travelled or lived in a particular country who want to follow up with a book set in that same country. Another mashup might map authors from various countries - in RA work you often have people wanting Australian or English or Indian authors etc so again I think this sort of thing would be interesting to look at on a world map. Maybe they already exist? I know I don't have the technological know-how to create one yet but maybe with a little bit more exploration and research I can give it a go!