23 Things Summary

I think this activity was a really great way to introduce a lot of new technology, and show just how much the internet has to offer.

There were some really great tools, a lot I had used before and a lot I hadn't, and all of them were pretty interesting to explore.

Not only can a lot of these things be used by librarians in their jobs, but are great tools to introduce to library users, and improve service.

As someone interested in academic libraries, I found a lot of these really interesting. Several of these tools would be very useful to college students doing research, as well as being extremely easy for them to use. College-age students today are very technologically savvy, but probably don't know how to use it to make it work for them school-wise, and probably wouldn't know about some of these things, but a librarian could introduce them to it.

I think that libraries must move forward with technology and internet, and in order to do so, librarians must know how to use all sorts of web 2.0 tools, and how to utilize it in order to give their patrons the best services possible. While the 23 things certainly don't cover everything that the internet has to offer librarians, they are still extremely helpful in giving an introduction to the web, and are a great starting point in terms of the wide array of things that the internet can offer a librarian.