Saturday, October 25, 2008

Open Source

Since you joined OCLS, how has technology changed the way you access, use or provide information? As technology makes information more open source, how do you see our role, as a library, in the future? Describe it for us in your blog.

I think that the library will continue to move away from being stagnant, store houses of information toward more open sourced retrieval locations for information.

I have definitely had to become more aware of online resources and particularly our databases here at the library in order to fully provide all the resources the library has for patrons.

Our role will be to know how to locate information, whether we are the librarian with a Master's in Library Science or a shelver of books. We all will have the unique opportunity to bridge the information gap to get people the information they are looking for.

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