What an interesting article, Distance Education and Virtural Reference: Where are we headed? Yeah, where are we headed? Will there be to many librarians in 2015? Will we need to return to the classrooms? What will be the role of the librarain in 2010?
We know the positive benefits of having a virtural reference, but what is the negative benefits of having it, I wonder.
Is it cost effective to have a virtual reference librarian or a librarian?
Are answers really responded to in a timely fashion?
How correct are the answers provided by the reference librarians?
I have two very interesting articles to glance at and tell me, does it sound like to you libraians will be extinct or will they thrive in this booming technology?
www.infotoday.com/climag/apr101/coffman.htm
This site I could not provide the url,because it is a powerpoint. So just go to google and search Is Colliaborative Virtural Reference Cost effective and if so, for who?
look for this url pdaris.umuc.edu/-jarnold/vrd6kaskearnold.ppt
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Lena, you pose many interesting questions. I feel that what is going to change is the librarians role and job description. With all the new and ever-changing technology, I feel that libraian will truly become the media specialists in schools. I think this will increase our needs in schools. Already, having been in this program for a year, I have learned so much new information. I tell other people about it and they have never heard of some of the things we have learned about. I think we will always have a job as long as we continue to do our jobs correctly and never stop educating ourselves and others.
Making Waves,
Like Janine I believe that school media specialists will be in more demand in the future than ever before. Of course this depends on how much we keep ourselves informed about new trends in technology applicable to information literacy. A librarian today can easily find herself out of touch with such technological advances if she is not committed to staying informed and aquiring new skills by attending classes/seminars for her own professional development.
Making Waves,
I was not able to locate your article from Infotoday, but I was able to find the powerpoint presentation on the cost effectiveness of virtual referencing.
I never thought of the changes that virtual librarianship could bring about in my/our workplace. I simply thought of it as one more skill that we could have, and offer to the patrons. Now I have many questions. How will virtual referencing affect us, school librarians? Is it likely to affect our hours in the workplace? Do school libraries even need to get involved in virtual librarianship when many of the public libraries already offer these services? I see virtual library services as being essential to college level education, especially the 24/7 component, but I see little need for it at our level.
Hello Ahenryst,
You have a lot of good questions. Now please remember this is only my opinion. I am not in the library and have only been taching for the last 17 years.
You asked how will vitural librarian effect us school librarians? I don't think it will effect us. As long as we have students still attending school, then we are needed. We will continue to assist students and promote reading for life skills.
I know if my students use the services it is after school.
You also asked do we need to get involved, and no I don't think we need to get involved with the vitural libraries only to promote its services.
As yes, I agree, the college students have a great service if they tap into the program. The convenience of the program is the biggest benefits.
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