The End...?

Last things first - yea, I'm going to keep doing this, I'm thinking of setting up a wiki for my Blackboard class for online resources. I'd love to teach more 2.0 stuff. Let the fun begin!
Of course, it has already, cuz I've found online sources that will make my class much better.

I think the most exciting part that I've seen is Beinecke (Yale) using wordpress for promoting unprocessed collections. Not traditional, but traditional is going the way of Marc and Endevour and other broken programs and processes. It's scary to be a new grad and watch all you learned go away - but it's also very liberating. I thought Marc was broken (or at least the Opac was) years ago.

http://beineckejwj.wordpress.com/

Of course, I could go to SAA this week and hear it live but ......I can get all the sessions I want on cd without going, and tap into the blogs...so why go? Why not stick with MAC, where I can meet regional people? Cuz I'm not going to cross paths with Harvard people anywhere else - except online.

I need much more time - so many toys, so little time! Use Zotero, or CiteULike? delicious or Googlemarks? And more importantly, can I import them if I change my mind?

So we live in ineresting times, in the Chinese curse sense. Librarians may get totally repurposed in the next decade. I've been repurposed before. Not always fun, but challenges are growth things, not fun things. If I hadn't been who I was before, I wouldn't be where I am, and in the words of my father - no knowledge is lost, what you have in your head, no one can take away.