My views on social media It would be absolutely remiss of me to not start this reflective statement piece with the admission that before undertaking this assignment and task, I was extremely skeptical, negative, and unfortunately quite bias about social media as a whole. I’ve…
Currently, within my role as one of the librarians in the Vision Australia Library team, I am lucky enough to be at the very forefront of some incredibly interesting evolutions of technology, particularly in the accessibility and inclusiveness sector. Some of these technologies are truly…
The topic of accessibility and inclusiveness is a perpetually and exponentially hot topic in the information sector, increasingly so as technology evolves and our methodology of communicating with one another evolves alongside of it. Accessibility is for absolutely everyone, and this is a topic that…
For this task, the following two Twitter Feeds were investigated; ALIA: https://twitter.com/alianational Library of Congress: https://twitter.com/librarycongress ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association) is the peak and pivotal governing body of Australian Libraries. In their own words, ALIA’s purpose is “To engage members in promoting a…
Long gone are the days of the archetypal library, dust and endless bookshelves and silence. Long gone are the days of the shusher, card catalogue, and date card stamp in the back of your books. The term “Information Professional” has evolved as quickly, in as…
As we delve deeper and deeper into the information age, social media has ultimately become the be-all and end-all of interpersonal communications. This is not just on a personal level, with the ability to send memes to your friends, or go through an old school…
Theodore Roosevelt (n.d.), 26th president of the United States, famously once said that “comparison is the thief of joy”. This is a sentiment that has perpetually and exponentially increased through the social-media age. A big concern that seems to be omnipresent today, is the damage…