Congratulations! You’ve reached the eighth and concluding week of Opening Doors to the Future. Whether you’ve been following the schedule, or going more at your own pace, we hope you’ve all learned something, made some discoveries, become more confident handling new technology, and enjoyed yourselves. While the whole point here was to help you explore and try new things (and we hope you will continue and encourage others to do so), this has been a learning experience for us, also. Sharing your experiences has given us valuable insight that will help us do an even better job of providing instruction on social media to still others. In fact, reading your blogs and seeing your interest is much like when a patron thanks you for turning them on to a new author or when you see a young patron get excited over a book you show them. We hope you’ll share a little more with us in the final blog for this week (or even a little after), but also that you will continue exploring beyond the program, encouraging others to do likewise, and opening new doors to the future. On behalf of Marti, Sarah, Shannon, Allison, Diane, Lori, Binh, and myself, Paul, thank you!
Week 8: Opening New Doors to the Future
April 24, 2012 by wolfamongthebooks
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You each sound lovely and very dedicated to librarianship. I wish you the best outcome from this project and in future ones as well.
Thank you! We appreciate your kind thoughts.
Thank you for sharing your time, and your library with us. Because of the staff at BPL, this was more than a class project, it was a meaningful, real-world experience.
I have taken the liberty of sharing links to the program with my sister who is an MLS and presently operating a library consultancy after many years in the trenches.
See http://alisonernst.com/
Her husband is an architect specializing in library buildings, so it’s all in the family.
A general commentary I have of the program is that it took me a while to figure out the actual source and nature of it all, and this left me a little confused about why I was doing this (besides being directed to participate by my chief minder). This is likely because I failed to first read (or failed to be directed to read) the ABOUT section so I would understand what this was all about right up front. Yes, the About link was posted up front in the first blog posting, but I must have glossed over it in the hurry to get going.
I did learn a great deal, and was given the opportunity to try some things I might otherwise have shunned in the absense of the inspiration of the program.
Best regards to you all, and I hope you “passed the test.”
Besides learning something new, sharing is also a part of the program and we’re very happy to have participants provide a link to others. Also, thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. We want imput so we can “tweak” the design and make improvements. We’re also glad you learned from this experience. This really makes it worthwhile for us! Thanks!
As Paul said, thank you for providing feedback to us. This project was as much for us to learn how to present information as it was for you to learn technology tools. Now we know what needs to be highlighted or explained more. Thanks for sharing your sister’s link with us. Maybe some of us will be lucky and get to work in a library which she has influenced.
This validates the insanity (or at least ADHD) I have perceived is the universe of social media, see…
http://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-marketing-landscape-complicated-2012-5?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29
Alex
WOW! I didn’t even recognize some of the names. Wonder how many will fade away and which will be the newest craze? Can we really sustain all those? Truly a symptom and a cause of ADHD! Thanks for sharing.
Ever see one of those books detailing a decade? It lists major events, musical groups, movies, TV shows, and popular products. How many of those products are still around? Will someday people look back at some of these and ask what were those?