Yes, the heading says it all. I am totally frustrated being unable to put virtually anything I have learnt into practice.I am going to have forgotten it all. It is like living in the dark ages or even being kept in a prison. You know there are all these tools out there but you are not permitted to use them and they would make our jobs so much more satisfying and be of such a great help to the public BUT Oh No the almighty IT department says there are problems with doing all these things - they do not specify what they are - and there fix to the problem (?) is you can't use it, not how can we cure the problem.
Sorry but I had to get that off my chest. I should change the title of my blog from I can do this to I could do this if I was allowed.
For those of you out there who are still going, keep going, it opens a whole new era of possibilities. Our profession has such a lot more to learn and many more challenges in the amazingly expanded horizons of the electronic information world.
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I think there are quite a few people in libraryland who feel your pain - we will be preparing guidelines and issues papers to try to help influence IT policies around access to 2.0 tools. But this sort of advocacy always takes time.
Stay strong!
Mylee (PLS)
Thanks Mylee, where would we be without all your support at SLNSW, it is greatly appreciated.
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