- How would info literacy and info tech literacy be taught in a schools curriculum with the rate at which the technological world advances? Would it be taught as a course or would more technological tools be introduced into existing curriculum for the students to get the oh so important hands on experience.
- Information literacy and information technology literacy must be balanced. I don't see how you can have one with out the other and be successfully well rounded.
Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers
- Can libraries afford to deliver microcontent? Aside from having free services, how can they compete with retailers with their budget restrictions?
- I'd never heard of the term "fleshmet" before this article and I think it's really disturbing. It takes the humaness out of human contact. It sounds like something an alien would say.
- As a book lover, I'm saddened by the information that fewer books are being printed.
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The question you raise about libraries being able to provide micro-content in competition with for-profit information retailers raises an interesting question in my mind. Should libraries be attempting to compete with for-profit information retailers at all, or are libraries really designed to service another population, and as I'll get to in a minute a greater public good.
Perhaps it is the case that most for-profit information retailers service mostly economically well to do costumers, who can afford PDA's and laptop computers. Where libraries, particularly public libraries are primarily serving those who can not afford a home PC or home internet access.
To me this could mean that instead of competing for market share with retailers libraries should be viewed as part of an equalizing project that has benefits to society at large by ensure that we don't have a growing information underclass.
Or something like that.
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