Learning 2.0 Week 10 - Mash-ups

I see mash-ups as a new way to present information on the web. From location to highlighting various services. A public library service can easily use mash-ups to show the location of it main branch on its web site - or, if it has multiple branches, the location of all of its branches, using the Google maps tool. A mash-up can have four categories - video/photo, mapping, searching, news - all four of these categories can be put to use to highlight the various services a library provides. I can see the local studies librarians using mash-ups to present areas of historical interests in the local area, providing a map location, photo or video and a voice thread commentary. Also, local studies can apply this to family history, so users can locate various parts around the world and in Australia, where their relations have lived. Mash-ups can help promote the library and be used by library users for their own information needs.