Thing 7

Our library and myself are very aware of these web 2.0 tools. I can not imagine our place running effective without email. We use it for communicating with each other, updates on the server, monitoring virus infection on the machines, making appointments, ect. the list is endless. Rochester Public Library currently also has a program to chat live with patron or anybody for an hour every day. The screen name is RPLmnInfo for Yahoo and AIM. One other tool that I notice we use a lot is webinar. There are no surprises here. With the technology age that we are in now aday, this is a very useful tool to communicate to other people far away. Our library will be launching a tutor.com program for our patrons to get help with their homework this fall so we will be utilizing these web 2.0 tools extensively to advertise the program. Youtube.com will be used, email will be used, webinar will be used. The list is endless. How effective we will be using these tools to get the message out is something that we will soon find out.