Technology @ OCLS

As a library employee, technology plays a major role in my job. For the most part, I rely on the internet to look up information and provide answers to our patrons. I am responsible for promoting wonderful services such as email or text messaging due date/class reminders, our online databases, downloadable media, online computer classes and chat services that we provide. With these services, we are able to reach many, many patrons that we wouldn't most likely get through our doors.

My goal is to keep up with the trends with the proper training and reading up of new technology coming out. Working at the library has helped me keep with new technology and avenues of communicating with the world. We have wikis and blogs that help us communicate with each other and we have classes that we attend to help us learn how to use new software or new services we provide.

I have to admit though, that I try to stay away from technology when I am away from work. Not completely, that would be impossible, but I do tend to stay away from my home computer and I refuse to buy a cellphone that has a touch screen and does everything except carry a blood sample from you. I'll stick to my old flip phone as long as I can make/take phone calls and send text messages, I'm good. I also don't visit the social networks I have signed up for online such as Myspace and Facebook as often I used to. I guess I'm all teched out by the time I get home. :-)

That is pretty much I have on that, but before I go, I did google my name. Fortunately my name is really common so there is no way to track me down, at least the real me...