Excited About Learning 2.0

Well today was an interesting day. I had seen the advertisement for Stephen Abram's presentation on the website and read the invite from Janet Hartzell. I was interested. I wanted to know what the future of libraries was looking like from a professional. In one of my recent classes at IPFW, I had to write a paper of my interest. Since I worked at the library and have always liked the library I wanted to know what changes were being forecasted. I ended up writing about digital libraries and if the actual physical library was looking at it's demise. (Side note, the physical library is not looking at it's demise.)

So Wednesday morning I dragged myself out of bed after working until 10:30 pm the night before and it was off to the library again. Stephen's presentation was very encouraging in regard to the changes that libraries should be looking at in order to keep up with the rest of the world. I liked what he had to say and was excited. I have to admit, my previous feelings of libraries was that libraries should only be about books and only books. But here I was listening and honestly not understanding some of his lingo (not because he is Canadian either). I realized that I was already falling behind in my knowledge of the "information literacy". Fortunately, I had taken a recent course called Computers in Society and was able to keep up somewhat.

Next, I read my email about the Learning 2.0 and find myself more excited because I really want to be a lifelong learner. Subsequently, maybe I'll become a "cheerleader" in our library system someday. Note: the term cheerleader is a inside joke that some of you who read this might understand.

Next Up: My Learning Contract??