I am both curious and passive. That means that sometimes I have to be dragged, kicking and screaming into trying new things. I was afraid at the beginning of PP when the first assignment was to create a blog of our own that we would use to comment and try out web 2.0 technologies. When I discovered how easy it was to use many of these tools, I lost the fear.
As stated in the 11-12 week assignment post, not everything will be useful to all libraries and all people or situations. Evaluation of each need will determine what steps are taken to solve a question posed by a patron, fellow staff person, or new need in the library environment. The six steps are a great reminder of this. Mashups definitely are examples of curiosity and creativity to fill needs people have encountered, trying to make life easier. Blogs, bloglines, survey monkey, Gabcast, Flickr (for events pictures), Librarything, del.icio.us and tags are definitely things that I can use in my library in what I do on a regular basis. I recommend Librarything to patrons, as I have used it for several years. I would like to see myself using web 2.0 technology to have a social community book review/what-I-am-reading-now site.
My curiosity will keep me interested in keeping up with new technology, and my passiveness will probably keep me from trying any new technologies until I find a need that the new technologies can fill in my personal life. Thank goodness for newsfeeds (rss). My library life... I do not know. I am certainly more outgoing with people when living in my library environment.
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Hi ssklibrarian,
Very intuitive! That's a great way to describe yourself - and I'm glad that Project Play was able to help dispel some of the fear.
Your idea about a book review site sounds great! Let me know what you come up with.
We hope you're inspired to continue to play more, learn more and fear less!
Great work on the 2nd Semester of Project Play,
Jean
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