http://macdjame.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/5/ This blog explores some of the various aspect of Library 2.0 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:12:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://macdjame.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/5/#comment-4 bgood Sat, 19 May 2007 23:30:35 +0000 http://macdjame.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/5/#comment-4 It's an exciting time to be getting into the profession, isn't it? It seems crazy not to embrace the new technology available to us if we want to be relevant. It’s an exciting time to be getting into the profession, isn’t it? It seems crazy not to embrace the new technology available to us if we want to be relevant.

]]> http://macdjame.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/5/#comment-3 Robotic Librarian Fri, 18 May 2007 07:53:14 +0000 http://macdjame.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/5/#comment-3 Keeping the interest of the tech-savvy infoseekers will be the challenge, but as you point out the low cost of many electronic services is central to our continued relevance. That, and nurturing people's fondness of physical libraries, I hope. The internet is a tool, but a demanding one. It may seem free but it requires a lot of equipment and is not easy to read from at length. Who knows, that may change soon too, or we'll just acclimate to reading book-length texts. (It is almost embarrassing that the 2006 ALA Handbook is so neglectful of the Internet. Didn't we just visit "information island" in second life?) Keeping the interest of the tech-savvy infoseekers will be the challenge, but as you point out the low cost of many electronic services is central to our continued relevance. That, and nurturing people’s fondness of physical libraries, I hope. The internet is a tool, but a demanding one. It may seem free but it requires a lot of equipment and is not easy to read from at length. Who knows, that may change soon too, or we’ll just acclimate to reading book-length texts.
(It is almost embarrassing that the 2006 ALA Handbook is so neglectful of the Internet. Didn’t we just visit “information island” in second life?)

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