The ongoing conversation between Casey Bisson at Maison Bisson, Michael Stephens at Tame the Web, and Christopher Harris at Infomancy got me thinking about our clients.
I’m pretty recently out of college, and there is a vast difference between how I approached information seeking as an 18 year old and how the typical freshman (that I come into contact with) approaches the same task. They know that there is good information in books, but that they can get pretty good information faster, more conveniently, and more easily from the web. Christopher Harris points out that librarians need to undergo a radical perceptual shift with our radically changing client-base. What does that mean for us?
And, again, this is really what most of the Library 2.0 talk seems to be about. I think for me, at this point in time, as a MLIS student and a paraprofessional that is just starting out, this means:
1. Playing with new technology–hardware and software
2. Talking to students to see what they’re doing
3. Talking to students to see how they’re using the technology they’re interested in
4. Reading blogs and participating in discussions on these topics
5. Thinking, thinking, thinking about how to become part of the fabric of our students lives (facebook, flickr, last.fm, etc.) and how to use that positioning to teach information literacy
6. Trying new things out, and regularly assessing them to see if they accomplish what they’re designed to accomplish
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