My Digital Contribution

As I mentioned on the class forum, my online presence is not very strong (but its growing). However, I overlooked my PFE experience working on the Digital Commons at Rhode Island College . I work on the database for the records to the Smolski collection, slide photographs by Chet Smolski converted to digital format and uploaded to the Digital Commons site. I primarily work with the records, but hope to learn more about converting and scanning the slides. I guess I am making a contribution to the world of virtual information after all! There are some terrific photographs of Providence architecture in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as other images if anyone is interested.

"The Networked Librarian"

I just finished watching "The Networked Librarian" video. I hadn't heard of anyone referring to "FOMO" (fear of missing out) before, as Rainie refers to it. This fear ties into the question Suellen posted on her blog about always being connected as well as the comments about time-suck and internet obsession several of us mentioned in class. I have noticed being disconnected from my cell phone or internet access makes me a little anxious because I don't want to miss out on something. The number of accounts and sites to keep up with can be overwhelming and I often wonder if I am the only one experiencing information fatigue. I have organized my classmates blogs into the Google Reader and so far I think its a great tool for me.
As Rainie mentioned, broadband connections have drastically changed participation in social media and internet activity. I am a very get in, get out, and get on with it internet user, so increased speed of delivery has certainly influenced my internet use over time.

New and Exciting Things!

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog for the Library 2.0 and Social Networking course at URI!. Here I will be discussing ideas and issues related to the course materials and topics.

I am so excited to start this class! This is my first blog and I have to work on getting some other social media sites up and running. I look forward to trying out some new and exciting things in this course and exercising some creativity!