Why!!!
Why I am doing this? A blog me, I always thought that blogging was for either wise, intelligent, profound folks or windbags who like to hear themselves talk or in this case write. I never thought nor think of myself as fitting in any of the aforementioned categories.
But now I find myself pondering stuff. Being an educator/librarian, I find myself struggling to keep up with the college students I see and talk with every working day. I find myself struggling to keep pace with the never-ending technological change I/we face on college campuses every day, seemingly every minute. Not to mention the changes wrought in my live outside academia.
I like to think of myself as a technical, computer literate soul, now I’m not so sure. I find myself struggling to keep up, getting closer to the cliff of old manhood, becoming one of those I used snicker at when I was younger as they struggled to comprehend this new computer stuff intruding into their existence. Today we are inundated with new stuff every minute, new technology, new ways of doing things, new ways of entertaining our selves. I’ve become complacent living in my little cocoon.
I am librarian at Missouri Western State University, been here for five years but I have been a librarian at universities since 1987, that is ages, eons ago. Wow that is 23 stinkin years, longer than most of the students, I see every day, have been alive. Any of you non-librarians reading this must be thinking . “Big whoopee you sit in a building all day reading books, helping students, what are u complaining about.” Sorry you are sadly mistaken. Think how much technology has changed your life, if you have kids, teens,tweens,or twenty somethings, think of their lives and how technologically advanced they are compared to you. Now ponder for a moment how many books do they read, how do they get information, how do they communicate with each other. Now try to think how you would deal with 5,000 of them. How would you teach them and not bore them to tears, how would get them to use quality research information when they can jump on the Internet and find an “answer’ to anything, even though it might not be the correct answer or most reliable source of information. Welcome to my world!!
So this blog is my attempt to find interesting things that I know little about. Interesting things to help me keep up, to help me be able to teach these “darn kids.” Since I have other interests they may creep in this space on occasion, bear with me please. Hopefully along the way you may find my interesting things, interesting also. Let the quest for enlightenment begin.
