"Fascinating," to quote Mr. Spock. I do genealogy online and find that I can use the web environment to very good effect. I have found that I can go into documents online through Google and find information on an ancestor from the 1500's in Northamptonshire, England. I can go to Wikipedia and find information on a tiny village in Northamptonshire where that ancestor was supposed to have lived. I can see an aerial view of that village.
But bringing this back to libraries, they have been one of the primary information sharing "tools" of civilization for thousands of year now but I don't know that I can picture how they will integrate into web just yet. Maybe I don't have to. Maybe I simply have to look at what is happening and understand it. Libraries do have a presence on the web but maybe the "23" things is looking at ways to put librarians out there too.
Well I suppose that was pretty vague maundering on my part. We'll see.
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Did you have any particular thoughts about the video and blogs you viewed in this task? I thought it good what Stephen Abram said. If it's important enough, we will make time for it.
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