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Can you blog like a digital native?
2006
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Apr
The April 8th ILA Southwest Regional Conference will be discussing "digital natives". All digital immigrants will be encouraged to blog their comments and ideas about how libraries can reach this group. Watch this blog for more information from the keynote session and take advantage of this worry-free opportunity to be a blogger ;) See you Saturday!
Glenna Rhodes, Boise Public Library
- Posted by: sandiw1941
Library Internet Policy Information
Online access to library resources
Hello there, I was born and raised in Idaho Falls, but now life has taken me to the Boston area. I fondly remember spending many afternoons doing research in the Idaho Falls Public Library, and I think it is great that you have this online resource and blog. As a "digital native" myself, I think that the best opportunities for libraries are in sharing digital resources between libraries, creating larger digital-resource-sharing networks, and making more digital information available.
The Boston Public Library has an incredible number of resources (subscription databases, digitized newspaper/journal archives, etc) that are accessible through their web-portal, protected only by a library card number. This way, anyone with a library card can login and access all of these resources online.
I think to embrace "digital natives", these online resources are much more important than putting more computers in the physical libraries themselves.