At first I didn’t think I would find rollyo very useful. I’ve had a look at what some of the other staff here have done but it’s all knitting and cooking and things that don’t interest me a bit. I’m happy to search using google, sure I have my favourite websites that I like to use, but I don’t feel the need to combine them into one searchable engine.
That is until I had a look at some of the searchrolls that are on the explore searchrolls page. I saw a search for guitar tablature and then realised that this is a useful tool. I have many different sites in a folder in my favourites on my home computer that I often have to search one at a time when looking for the chords to a particular song. This searchroll would be useful to me! I had a quick try of it but found it’s missing some of the sites that I use regularly so I could make an even better one!!
I registered with rollyo and clicked on create searchroll. I copied the sites from the search I had just looked at but there were only 6 websites included in that search. I added some of my own and ended up with 17 sites. I think if I search for a song using Rollyo and I don’t find it, then at least I’ve saved a lot of time by not having to type it into each of the sites separately.
I can see how this tool would be useful in libraries. You could have searches for different subjects, or aimed at different user groups. At the moment we have a useful links link on the library website. This could easily be replaced by rollyo search boxes that include all the sites we currently have listed in each of the categories. The employment category search box could include all the major job sites in one (eg. My Career, Seek, jobsearch.gov.au, etc.)
Did I use too many links in this blog?
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