Infollectual http://infollectual.com Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 en Different country, same issues http://infollectual.com/?p=27 http://infollectual.com/?p=27#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:46:36 +0000 Nancy Technology Information Literacy http://infollectual.com/?p=27 Needless to say, I was hoping to update on a regular basis about all that I’m learning, but my days are so full that it’s difficult to find time to post.  However, I attended the library fair and forum yesterday where I attended sessions on the digitalization projects and library instruction in the classroom and then met with the Tokyo University Library today and I can sum all of this up quite easily.  While Japan may be progressive in the technological tools it uses, when it comes to information technology and libraries, Japan and the US are very much alike. 

Our users want easy and immediate access to information (i.e. Google) and it’s difficult for us to find a single platform to reach these users.  In addition to the issues of information literacy, there’s the problem of electronic information and the lack of consistency - between the way information is digitized, who’s responsible for it, how much will it cost us, and how do we preserve it?

I still have many more library visits ahead of me and hope to post some more detailed updates in the near future.

]]> http://infollectual.com/?feed=rss2&p=27 The Power of Relationships http://infollectual.com/?p=26 http://infollectual.com/?p=26#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:13:46 +0000 Nancy International Public libraries Technology Horner Fellowship http://infollectual.com/?p=26