Wrapping it up

    Good morning everyone! Finals are almost here! Or, if you're like me, you've been working on projects and term papers for the end of the semester. This blog, which is part of a final for ILS 325, is due tomorrow. So, I wanted to get one more post in before I submitted it.

    As many of you know, the class I'm taking is Digital Library Technology. Throughout the semester, we learned about a bunch of technology like social media, e-books, library discovery services, mobile apps and webpages for libraries, self check-outs, etc. The list goes on. I found this course to be really exciting and I would love to be a technology librarian. Technology is always dishing up something exciting.  For those bah-humbug folks who are viewing this blog and saying that libraries are going the way of the dinosaurs, that is simply not true. These folks are viewing libraries in the traditional sense. I believe that if we embrace the technology and its trends today, great things will happen in the library.

One word about Second Life. I regret not making it to a library event before this blog had to be submitted. I did happen to be talking to someone in CVL who told me what happened to some of the libraries in Second Life. A lot of them are not gone, they've just migrated to other virtual worlds. Speaking of events, I should have held my own event, I do have my own group in SL, although it's quite small.

                                           Trixy Jewell aka Charity checking out the library

Now, the only other thing I have to do before this course is done is finish my library proposal.