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Carterton Community Centre
A multi-use, flexible facility for everyone in the heart of Carterton. Professionally managed and available for all to use. For more details please click here
How to make the most of your library membership: Kete
Carterton Library is proud to announce the launch of our very own Kete.
What is a Kete? A Kete is a knowledge basket that you can use to create online areas for collaboration by the community. Write topics and upload images, audio, video, documents. Discuss them and link them together. It’s a fun way to get your stuff on the internet so it can be shared by people all over New Zealand and the world!
Take a look by clicking here. This will bring you to our Kete home page from here you can browse our Kete and its Baskets - Carterton District Library and Carterton Connections are the two current baskets, located at the top under Carterton Kete. To the right there is a Contents by type – topics, images, audio, videos, weblinks, documents, discussion. Another way to browse is you can type a search in the search box, top right.
The Kete consists of a lot of individual topics created by you, the user. Here is how to do it.
Log In and start adding your material!
To add material click on ‘Add’ in the menu bar at the top.
Choose what you are going to add:
Topic – these are the best way to gather items together into subject clusters. They are like an article in an encyclopedia, they tell the story. You can then attach related items to this topic.
Image – the Kete can store images in most of the common formats (e.g. jpg)
Audio – you can add digital audio files to Kete for things such as oral histories, interviews, music and bird songs
Video – Kete also allows you to put up video content, this may be a video of an interview, an event or something fun like you would see on YouTube
Web Link – you can put links to websites into Kete. This is useful for sites that forbid you to copy material (check the copyright) or ones you are unable to copy from (i.e. Youtube)
Document – in addition to typing material directly into Kete, you can attach existing documents so that people can see the actual document.
Give your topic or item a title and description
Attach your image/audio/video by clicking on the ‘Browse’ button and choosing the file on your computer
Give your item or topic a Creative Commons License
Click ‘Create’
Now you have added things to the Kete you may like to organize and link to existing topics. To do this it is a good idea to have some idea which topics you want linked together, this will also give you a chance to browse around the site. Once you know what you would like to have as related topics you are ready to link them together.
Go to the main topic that you want to add the related topics to.
At the bottom of that topic there is a blue box called ‘Related items’ here is listed the different type of topics available and options to create links
Clicking on ‘Create’ will allow you to add an image/document/video
Clicking on ‘Link to existing…’ will allow you to search for an image/document/video that is already existing on the Kete and link to it
There is a VERY helpful help section here that clearly explains how to find things, add topics and tricks you can do with Kete.
For archived 'What's Hot' pages please click here
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