Well, since I began in OCLS and specially after Learn 2.0 I learned a lot of new ways of finding information online. Just recently I took the Novelist Database training and I find it quite good. It's a fast and specific tool that can help you find any kind of fiction or series book, along with ideas even for book clubs. When patrons ask me anything I inmediatly "google" it. Everyday we are just becoming more and more dependable on technology to learn. It's the same thing that happened when everybody got access to e-mails. Now who writes paper letters?
In the future, I think the Library will continue to evolve and meet the technology standard as it has been doing. We even have playaways, and tons of online databases just to mention some. The Open Source software can help us develop software applications that are going to be useful for us individually here at OCLS and for our public needs. So we can customize everything we offer or use online or on the computer itself.
By the way, I "googled" myself and one of the first results was a class here at OCLS that I presented. And I didn't even use the keyword FL or Orlando. I just searched by my name.
It's just a little creepy, that you can be found so fast these days.
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