What a fun trip this has been (and will continue to
be)! My favorite discovery
of this program has been that if there is something you’re looking to do,
organize, or share, there is probably an application out there to help you do
just that (and probably for free, too).
There also seem to be very active online communities surrounding most
productivity tools, so if you just google the names of ones that you are
interested in, you can find out a lot of information before joining and even
after joining you can learn things that the tutorials don’t necessarily
cover.
Zotero definitely wins for best find out of all of the tools
we’ve explored. It will make
collecting info for class projects and research an easier process. All of the tools, however, were
important to explore - even the ones that I will probably never use again,
because a lot of other people do use them and those people will be our future
library patrons. Also, just
because I can’t see myself personally utilizing these tools doesn’t mean that
they wouldn’t be effective tools in a library setting.
Learning 2.0 has definitely made me look at how web 2.0
tools can be adopted by libraries and for patrons. One of the tenets of 2.0 technology, interactivity, is
imperative to the library, especially if we are to remain relevant in an
increasingly web-based world. By
reaching out to our patrons and involving them in the creation of content and online
community, they will hopefully be engaged enough to continue to utilize library
resources and services, in whatever format or space that takes place.
