Mashups

I think mashups are fitting for librarians and libraries, since we seem to collaborate on so many different projects. However, I'm having a hard time coming up with an idea off the top of my head as to how to use mashups in my library. Perhaps if we had an identified problem a mashup might be a solution to it, rather than vice versa.

The various maps I've seen have lots of potential. There's now a mashup on one of the weather websites that lets you see the actual houses in a neighborhood and places the radar over the top of this map, so you can supposedly tell when it'll be raining or snowing over your house.

One use for the map might be to label various places in the community and color coordinate them (restaurants all in blue, historical sites in yellow, etc.), although this might be a project for the Chamber rather than the library.

It might be worth it to update the Winnefox page with a mashup map. There is currently a map of the five counties Winnefox covers, but only a list of the libraries and you need to click on each one to find its location, hours etc.