A few thoughts and where to go from here

This has been a worthwhile experience and I enjoyed doing it. I highly recommend this training for all staff--certainly for all Info staff. There were some rough areas where links were broken and sites were no longer accessible, my sandbox experience being one of them, which could be a little frustrating. Although much was not new to me, Technorati, Del.icio.us and Rollyo were definitely new, and I may find a future use for them. The Online Image Generator was also new but I think I'll skip that one for now. Maybe I'll recommend it to my nieces and nephews to play around with. I also discovered how easy it was to add a film clip to a blog and will definitely have a use for that. I re-visited LibraryThing after a long absence and may use it, not so much for listing my own books, but for the other information on the site. RSS I'll skip for the time being as I am information overloaded as it is. (I have a Twitter account that I never look at, and used to have RSS feeds on my old Yahoo account that I never had time to read.) On the other hand, I have unearthed an old ipod and will give downloading podcasts another try.

Library 2.0 and the future of libraries

Quite frankly my eyes glazed over on reading some of these articles and I thought I was reading Marshall McLuhan--fortunately the Wikipedia article brought more of a sense of reality to the subject. Wendy Schultz's To a Temporary Place in Time provided an interesting projection into a possible future, but in public libraries I myself am not quite ready to give up the pleasurable physical experience of the book to live in a totally 3.0 existence. The blurring of fantasy and reality (40 hours a week of SecondLife cannot be healthy) can have a dangerous side for society. The 4.0 experience sounded better but somehow the author's use of language, and mixed metaphors/concepts got in the way, and I was not sure exactly what reality was really being communicated to me...