Educational Technology

July 14, 2010

Libraries embrace new technology

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

By Jason Lea and Cassandra Shofar, News-Herald

Video conferencing is just one way local libraries are embracing new technology. They have e-readers and use video games in their children’s programming. Hundreds of thousands of people visit them to use their computers. Many of them circulate movies more than books. Libraries are changing. They are using new technology and old technology in new ways. They will always be associated with books, but now loaning them is just one facet of what they do. Underlying these changes are two questions: What do people want from libraries and how should libraries remain relevant?

http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/07/04/news/nh2736357.txt

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