Good Morning,
As I look back at my past post of assumptions and assertions about the profession. I still agree with everything I said in that post. Libraries are headed more towards technology as the world heads that way itself. Libraries are still key in keeping record of history. I think overall my views are still dead on. But as this semester has gone on, I have learned a more about the profession and it has evolved some of the ideas I had.
Libraries are investing more on technology and through the course I got to see how and learn more about it. For example, one of my library visits was to an academic library and they have a much bigger virtual library then they do a physical one. Across the country, in Texas they also have the first bookless library. These are things I may not have realized as much without this class to help show and teach me some of this. Libraries are starting loan out e-books to patrons, it is getting more advanced and in a good way. It's interesting to learn about the new things that are coming and comparing them to what we use now.
Archiving is something that was mostly new to me. I think it is important to keep around and on top of. But resources are limited and it is very costly in some cases to convert everything to a digital collection. Libraries do have this important task of keeping track of history and archiving it helps tremendously. So I think I am still right with my first assumption, I have just learned more about with articles and other people's library visits to this type of institution. I don't think archives will ever not be valuable.
Ashley
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