The Last Week

I feel that being exposed to the 27 things has been a valuable experience for me. While it was often frustrating, probably because of my huge lack of knowledge about computers and all the terminology, I enjoyed the chance to become familiar with things I'd heard about but had no clue as to what they were. It has made me feel less out of touch, and hopefully that will allow me to better communicate with our patrons.

My two favorite discoveries were Library Thing with being able to catalog my own books as well as share with others and their favorites and ,of course, YouTube where I could, given time, spend endless hours viewing all the vidoes. I had no idea that a computer could be so entertaining! I think what surprised me the most is the endless amount of things available to us on the internet. Everything leads to something else.

My biggest frustration with 2.0 was the lack of time in which to do it. As an LA at a very busy library, there was very little time in which to work on it, and when I did I felt guilty because I was often leaving all the work to someone else. It sometimes created hard feelings. I think some of this could have been prevented by having fewer lessons or possibly have a separate set of lessons for the many of us with less computer experience.

I would like to see similar training opportunities in the future as new technologies emerge but, again, I would like to see them geared to the different levels of experience on the part of the participant.

Looking back at what I have learned overall, I would probably want to participate in the program again, but I must say there are many times earlier in the exercises that I never thought I would say that. However, my participation would be dependent on being sure we had adequate time without taking away from our regular duties, and having lessons geared to different levels of experience.