Job of Organizing -

This assignment was a little overwhelming for me. Organizing has always been a struggle for me, but I keep trying. I have noticed in my own life the need to organize pictures, files, house, etc. I never realized how consuming the challenges of organizing a library was going to be. Librarians are going to be kept busy keeping of with new trends of finding and verifying information. I personally enjoy books and I am sure they will always be around, but it seems to me that libraries are going to turn into technology centers. It is kind of like a mashup for me. I have always been into researching and when the computer came along it was great and I started using it. If I needed something local that I couldn't find online I went to the library and looked through the microfiche, it never occurred to me how libraries were having to change to keep up with technology. I really stopped using the library for research and never completely realized it because I still check out books for reading. I found the databases we have access to in the UNT library amazing. I live in a small town so my expectations of our small library have never been very high. I have found this class to be so enlightening because I have been isolated and have not kept up with technology. I keep up with world events, but this is something more. I feel like a clown in the circus trying to walk on a big ball and trying to maintain my balance. I am being engulfed by this tidal wave of new information especially all the websites and applications that I was not aware of or had even considered. I guess I have become accustomed to tags, but there are times when I do miss traditional subject headings. The problem with traditional subject headings is that they cover so much that you have to "weed through" to find what you are looking for and this can be time consuming. I believe I have used my Thesaurus more trying to figure out tags than I ever did in college or high school, but sometimes that is still faster than traditional headings. Librarians appear to be pioneers in the technolgy frontier and it is a very large world that I don't think will be "settled" anytime soon.