Journal 1

In Jill Jenson's article "It's the Information Age, So Where's the Information? Why Our Students Can't Find It and What We Can Do To Help." she highlights a very important view that even I have, that students are becoming less and less familiar with a library and more so with the Internet. Thought the Internet was a great invention, and it's uses are nearly limitless, it is very easy to get lost in the digital data jungle. Going to a librarian for consultation on finding an article or text is a thing of the past, that nice lady has now been replaced by browsers like Google and Bing. But even as helpful at finding information as these browsers can be, the indiscriminate property it has may very well be your bane. In looking for information on movies and theaters for your project you casually type in "theaters" into Google, the first link you click on is the time listings for the movies in the theater downtown. The second is how to install your very own home theater system, finally on the third link you fine a website with some of the information you are looking for, but it is just a brief article and it does not say where the original document came from.

I'll admit it, going to the library seems like a bit of a choir to me, because not only do I have to find a book or such on what I need, but I then must scan through it to find the parts I want to use. But even the library has changed with the coming of new technologies, there is still the nice lady behind the counter, but there are also some computers with software that you can use to type in the keywords to find a book relating to your search without the need of knowing an author. And just like the nice lady, this program will tell you if the book is checked in and where in the library you can find it. But again in agreeing with Jenson, I feel the youth is losing touch with the old ways of pouring through books at the library. Who knows maybe one day technology will fail and we will have to reteach ourselves how to use the library.