Welcome to my first ever Blog!
I am studying through Victoria University of Wellington doing my Masters in Library and Information Studies. As part of that degree I am completing a paper INFO525, Digital Technologies. One of the requirements of that paper is to create a blog, so here I am!
Writing a blog is one of those things that I have always meant to start, however I've never actually got around to it. This has been the motivation that I needed. Interestingly enough my sister just emailed me the link to her blog today so that was an extra incentive.
Some of the other things that I've done as part of my INFO525 paper are editing an image, creating an audio file, creating a spreadsheet, and creating a powerpoint. By the end of the paper I will be able to create and upload a webpage.
I am hoping that by doing this paper I might be able to bring the public library I work for into the 21st century. We have a website but that is about the extent of our 'techno' activities. I think it is important for libraries, especially public to embrace new technologies, not only to keep people interested but also to enable us to pass on knowledge and information to others.
3 comments:
Hi Theresa,
This is a great start to your blogging career. Is it not amazing how technology is making all this so much easier as well. I have been a heavy user of the Internet since I first connected around 1997 but creating content was so difficult back then. You either paid for someone else to do it or used cumbersome free webpage creators that crashed your computer more times than not (not pointing the finger at anyone in particular yahoo). Now it is so easy to create blogs, personal start pages, audio files etc, no wonder the Internet is growing so fast! Cheers Shiobhan
I agree with Theresa and Shiobhan that it is time for libraries to embrace new technologies to meet their patrons’ new information needs. The emerging technologies (e.g. wikis, RSs and blogs) offer an exciting opportunity for libraries to get closer to their patrons and learn about their needs. Patrons could respond to libraries’ products and services via interactive comments and have a say in what information they would like to get and in what forms. They also take more initiative in this information seeking and dissemination process instead of just being passive in receiving information.
Cheers!
--Bianca
It's very easy to adopt these new technologies, isn't it? But I've always found it to be so much harder to maintain the motivation to keep them going. My blogs and social network pages seem to quietly fade away after that first initial burst of pure enthusiasm.
I suppose that libraries could insure themselves against this motivation problem by writing it into someones job description. I wonder how many actually do this.
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