librarian anxieties

[Dipti Vora]

Technology being slow

[Vince Shepherd]

need more money for more bandwidth - Web 2.0 sites use so much and a lot of internet traffic is not being used for 'academic' purposes/

[Penny]

but maybe this is the way students learn now so that would make it for academic purposes.

[Penny]

Some of our reader workstations are arranged so that the screens are visible to anyone walking by, others face a wall with no passing traffic. I walked by one that had frozen with just the top half of a web page visible. The reader looked quite panic stricken - small wonder as, displayed for all to see, were the words "ADULT SERVICES".

I really wanted to point out to him that the sensible thing would have been to use one of the workstations facing the wall......

[Penny]

stoopid network

[Vince Shepherd]

Many librarians are scared that what happens in the insitution is increasingly passing the library by - people are accessing resources without having to go to the library. They're looking anxiously for ways to insert themselves into the research process.

[Ann Grounds]

Our hardware needs to be up to date if we need to incorporate this.