Thing 15

I am both excited & worried to see where the next generation takes libraries. Excited to learn the new technology librarians will have to learn & implement, but worried I will not be able to keep up. It's been four years since I have worked summer school & the changes are amazing. Gone are the days of the overhead projector--teachers want video projectors & projection cameras. Classes are not coming to use print material, but rather computers. The students primary research source is the web. I agree with the article, "Away from the iceberg," by Rick Anderson when he says, "we need to bring our library services & content to the user's preferred environment the web. So more than ever we need to learn & in-service our teachers on how to use the web efficiently by creating web blogs & content mash ups to build a useful web. With budgets being cut we too are cutting down on reference books because of their cost & focusing on fiction & high interest books like "library chica".