THE SUMMARY

Having been familiar with Wikis, blogging, RSS Feeds, YouTube, Netlibrary and del.icio.us for some time now I found it a very good and useful exercise to look at them from this different perspective. Though some are more intuitive than others, none are that difficult to learn. (I believe it would be a useful exercise to have a digital camera or two different types of digital camera picture downloading systems for us to practice with so we have some clue what to do to help patrons.) I know that patrons will appreciate the library using these new technologies to inform them and solicit their opinions. I don't think all of them will necessarily be useful to the library or to me personally but new ones will evolve. I do still think it would be helpful for us to partner up with technical services folks who don't feel as comfortable using them as public services staff does.