The Final Post in the Fence That Encapsulates This Little Adventure

Well it all comes to a close here, well the weekly task part anyway, the actual incorporating of the new innovations that this course has shown me is now the goal, or perhaps the gaol that keeps me occupied now?

Social networking and its I have to say has been one of the many trepidations that have had with my own Internet usage, mainly to do with how one can present oneself to others, and of course having to confine my personality to a singular scrolling page of text, of course you can get other facets though sound and video snippets. Though I will have to make the admission that I am a bit of a sucker for MMORPG's, They are certainly an interesting place of social interaction, much like the Second Life 3-D world but with more dungeons, which I'm sure Second Life has hehe.

Of course when you apply this to a scenario to a library, it can be seen as the library wanting to befriend its users, rather than than the limited interaction we get with patrons, we will have a neutral place to exchange ideas and get feedback and even suggestions on services. Events at the library could be sent to friends, promotional videos or soundbites made, and even befriending other libraries online to perhaps brainstorm new ideas for promotion and interlibrary exchanges. The possibilities are well worth exploring, many libraries already use wiki's for internal staff interaction, why not open it up to the public, after all, we are a public library, it seems only right to have a web presence where people can come to visit and interact.

Anyway I am really glad I took up this challenge, and despite my misgivings and skepticism of the interenet as the ultimate source of information, it does not mean I should be ignorant of how it can be used to benifit the library and its users. Huzzah!

Signing off,

Keith Suburban.