Friday 29th February.
Well here I am , alert and very alarmed. WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT !!At this point I would like all the press ganged Library 2.nothing bloggers to go and read..yes hard copy ..read.. Ben Elton's new book " Blind Faith" , and yes I did watch Stephen Fry's evangelical monologue on the first session..we brook no debate here !!!if you're not with 2.0 then you are brain dead or lazy.!! really ?!! I perceive the creeping tide of a new unchallengable orthodoxy sweep across my hairy hobbit toes !! What great zeal & urgency has been attached to this programme. Could I suggest that a better system of state based library grants for public libraries, and some more effective lobbying on their behalf may be a better use of SLNSW time !!Some serious push with the Premier's dept. to get some extra funding for PRC titles would be admirable, because while we fiddle in the bloggosphere , the state's teachers are attempting to ignite the passion for reading, yes those little paper things...books... by promotion of the PRC reading lists. And then of course there is the ongoing bungling over the RTA online DKtest, and now the TAFE handbook will only be available online..& what are we doing ? collecting stats !!! all these things create extra demand on resources & time & extra equipment..not to worry we have library 2.0 ..thank the deity !!! we may as well be POLISHING FROGS !!!. But perhaps this little polished frog shouldn't bite the hand that casts the ever diminishing crumbs, while poisoning her pond !!, Au Revoir for now , my fellow pilgrims.
4 comments:
I love the expression "polishing frogs"... but my suspicion is that Web 2.0 is going to shape much of our world in future - in business they're calling it "experience co-creation" but it's the same idea really... customers wanting a space to interact and collaborate.
As for the course, to date we have 880 people signed up - with really high participation from rural and remote areas which is the first time we've been able to offer something that is equally accessible wherever you work (IT constraints permitting).
I hope you stick with the course.
Mylee (PLS)
I get what you are saying. The only trouble with not going along with it all is that we will be left in the dark, technologically and that won't be a great place to be. Perhaps we would become as outdated in a modern library that welcomes children as the twin-set and pearls stereotypes of us. I want to embrace technology although I am not gifted with a brain that immediately clicks into gear regards machinery! I only wish I had more time to investigate and practice using these new sites and blogs etc. It would be great to get paid to blog all day.....
I love your blog name and sympathise entirely with your sentiments. Apart from anything else, where oh where will I (or any of us in the Same Boat)find the requisite time to use all of these new-found skills?
Of course, trying to keep up with the younger, technologically savvy Joneses is really just us being driven on the end of a pointed stick...
That said, I have tried my best to get into the course and have had some fun with it. Hope you do too.
I rather doubt you'll read any of these comments Polished Frog.
However: We NEED to upskill. Just look at the outsourcing that is happening in libraries.
There is a reason why a part of EACH week is asking you how this relates to working in Libraries.
Because it is us who decides what "Library work" will actually mean. One way or another.
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