About North Texas 23... Thing 2

Well... this will be my second post.

As all the Fort Worth Library staff received an e-mail encouraging us to explore the Web 2.0 tools and participate in the North Texas 23 things while we work on them... I am here doing my little bit.

Before I read the suggested articles on the Thing 2 : Learning about Learning 2.0 I knew about Web 2.0 but never had enough time to follow up with the program. This time I will try harder although time is always an issue at my Unit (and I imagine at everyone's workplace too)

Since it is becoming more relevant and urgent to know about new technologies, hoping to attract new and younger patrons --or not so younger but technology savvy--, we also must be able to answer their questions. Would that mean we need to be experts on every new technology? It seems daunting to me. At the library I work at, the majority of patrons using computers fall in two categories (more or less): the ones that know how to use the PCs, including My Space, Twitter, etc., and the ones that have no idea how to send an e-mail, get confused with web addresses and e-mail accounts and need lots of one-on-one help that we, frankly, can't give them since there is not enough staff to help the rest of the patrons.

...will be continued at a later time