Thing 15

Well, apparently the Finatic forgot to do Thing 15. The Finatic thought that the Finatic's superpost mentioned that there were some interesting points, but the Finatic guesses that this is not enough.

So, the Finatic actually looked at all five articles. The emphasis is, of course, on librarianship. But the Finatic is not a librarian (although respectful of those who are), so the Finatic wants to know how the articles apply to Finatic's job. The most interesting points in the "Into a new world of librarianship" was that L2.0 is a trendspotter, controls technolust and allows librarians to make good fast decisions. SJPL has prided itself as a trendspotter, so Finatic can understand why SJPL is participating in the 2.0 learning. The Finatic has witnessed that learning 2.0 is controlling the technolust of many people, but not the Finatic. The Finatic is using 2.0 as a springboard to learning other technologies and finding new resources, and is almost tempted to buy a webcam, an external hard drive (min 200 Gigs), and one of those PC cards that lets a person watch TV on the computer.

The Finatic really likes the concepts brought up in the "To more powerful ways to cooperate" segment. As Finatic has mentioned time and again, the Finatic is a student. One of the greatest challenges of any student is finding ways to gather and share information for team projects. The 2.0 program has taught Finatic that there are many great resources that can be used to collect and share knowledge (ZOHO rocks!).

The Finatic recognizes the importance of building better bibliographic services. Some of Finatic's friends are in library school and they are being required to build databases before they can graduate. If they can find ways to link their databases to the tools presented in 2.0, maybe they can be released from their grad school toil all the sooner.

Well, the Finatic has to run to the desk. The Finatic thinks that this should satisfy the posting requirement for Thing 15.