“Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating” ~Robert Brault

Week 2. Blogs.

1) What do you hope to learn from CPL 2.0?
I’d like to learn how new technologies could be applied to Customer Service at the Library

2) Which aspect of Web 2.0 are you the most intrigued (or scared) by?
A typical conversation between concerned parents and their high school students might, theoretically, begin with a casual inquiry about homework.
“Get off Facebook,” the concerned parent might ask. “Do your homework first.”
“Okay, fine,” comes the reply. “I’m just saying Bye.”
Ten minutes passes. The furious typing continues. The backpack remains unopened.
“I thought you were getting off Facebook to start the homework?”
“I am! I’m just saying ‘Bye!”
“Why does that take so long?”
“Because there is more than one person on – everyone is on!”
Everyone is on it… Internet, iPod, Laptop, the latest version of cell phone, Wii- my teenager has got them all! And she is good at it! Sometimes I feel that I am a “dinosaur”, tech- savvy “digital immigrant”… Even though, I am at the computer every day checking E-mail, editing posts on my Non Profit web-site http://sccalagry.com, visiting friends’ personal blogs, chatting on social networks, etc. I still feel left behind… How to make up to our computer advanced children? How far shall we go? Are the old fashioned books going to be replaced by machines eventually? These thoughts are pretty scary.

My Library (poem by Varda One)
It' only a room with shelves and books,
But it's far more magical than it looks.
It'a a jet on which I soar
to lands that exist no more.
Or a key with which I find
answers to questions crowding my mind.
Building my habit of learning and growing,
asking and researchig till I reach knowing...

Hello!
Zdravstvujtye (zdrah-stvooy-tee) (hello in Russian)!