Fin (Week 12)

It is truely terrifying how quickly three months can pass by... Here I am, at the end of it all, looking back through the misty lense of time (ooh, I can feel a song coming on, but what would our patrons think..)
I seem to remember writing about my aversion to myface sites in my first blog, and nothing has changed there. As far as institutions using them goes, well I really don't feel qualified to comment. Certainly I can't imagine there being a large enough user community to justify it in our library catchment area, and I don't think it is something we need to rush into, but maybe in the future when we are all just brains floating in a protein fluid they will be very useful. Yep, that's the future as I see it. Second Life will in fact be Only Life. I have chosen my avatar already.
However this course has been great for seeing how other libraries are using new technologies to remain relevant and accessible. Not everything is going to work, despite our best intentions, but is always worth trying. There are some great ideas out there, and there is no reason libraries can't get in on the action.