I don’t know about a history of Library Schools, but I am starting to realize that I should have gone out and had a life before I ever went to grad school. I have worked harder on LIS:768 in the past week than I worked on any class I took in the 2 years I spent in library school before. I am ashamed. I wasted those two years…and now I want to make up for it.
The idea of continuous connectivity is still not real to me. I’ve been sitting in Aroma (a coffee shop) for 4 hours, listening to a personalized playlist and reading articles. If I want a definition or to check out an idea it’s at my fingertips. I’ve learned a great deal about Library 2.0 and the 2.0 Librarian and taken pages of notes (which I and review easily if I have my laptop, because they are in Google documents and I can download them to my desktop. I haven’t learned how to do an RSS feed or imbed a video yet, but it’s so easy to put a link into a document so the reader can go to to the site herself and see what’s so exciting. The problem I see is the amount of information available.
more later…
