Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Muddiest Point for 9/01 Lecture
Well, to start off my new blog for LIS 2600, I'll begin with what I thought was the Muddiest Point for today's lecture. I seem to be clear on all the ways information technology is helpful to a library, but I guess I'm not seeing how exactly the opposite is true. I suppose libraries are a way to disseminate knowledge about IT, but it seems to me that IT is not really gaining much as compared as to the libraries.
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I think one of the ways information technologies, and the companies that develop and provide them are benefiting from Libraries, is financially. Although we currently see a decline in funding for libraries, during the 1990s when digitization was on the raise, Libraries were receiving grants and other monetary funds to support the transition to digital formats. And in that transition, the IT industry was being employed by libraries to provide the necessary hardware and software devices to meet their needs. Now, I'm not saying that Libraries are the sole financial support and incentive to information technologies, but they do have a beneficial relationship between the two. I do agree with you that it might not be an equal partnership, but at least there is a market place for what is being produced by the information technology industry.
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