NSW Public Libraries Learning 2.0 Ecourse - Week 1: Let's get started

We are living in a 'screenage' where we connect, collaborate, share, comment and interact in ways that only this generation has been able to/can do. The possibilities seem endless. However as the users are contributors and we are 'teaching the machine' (as Michael Wesch says in The Machine is Us/ing Us)we will need to rethink a few things, or almost everything (including ourselves as he leaves us with at the end of the clip). It only makes sense that Librarians and Libraries embrace these technologies as well as they are not going away and our service consumers familiar with and utilising them is growing exponentially. Let's all Librarians commit to Life Long Learning (taking it as seriously as an oath) and embrace change in order to stay current and preserve our profession and the places in which we can provide current and informed services. Maybe we could ask Stephen Fry to be our ambassador to encourage the embracing of change and moving with the times (and the benefits of Web 2.0 - one of them being to never miss an episode of your favourite TV show ever again! ;))