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http://www.violetdays.com/index.html

Posting #5
This weekend I decided to take a break from social media and deactivated my Facebook and Gchat, as well as turned off my phone. In many ways, I was able to explore other tech trends that had not been as prominent in my life. I finally had the chance to listen to David Sedaris by logging into my Overdrive(http://overdrive.chipublib.org/B997E831-7D7E-42A4-A4A0-D1273A896B65/10/375/en/Default.htm) account at the Chicago Public Library, as well as watch a movie on my Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/)streaming account without getting distracted every couple of minutes. It was also nice to write actual e-mails that were closer to hand-written letter versus the short, hurried notes that I usually type as responses to e-mails or posts on people’s walls.
I have nothing against technology. In fact, so much of my life is on Google applications I don’t know what I would do if they started charging me. My friends and I recently set up Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com/) accounts so that we can share music together, and in many ways we are creating community through our interactions online, even though it might not look like the community our parents might have participated in. So many of our inside jokes are shared as e-mail threads and all of our dinner plans and parties are not planned through e-vites, e-mail groups or GoogleWave. When something good or bad happens, we send e-cards (http://www.someecards.com/).
However, I think that because I grew up in this generation, it is easier for me to accept new tech trends. With new things coming out every day, I am constantly reminded that there are new apps to check out or new tech trends to keep up with. As a future librarian, it is important to keep in mind that everything is changing, especially our role as librarians. There’s really no way to predict which things will take off
(Google, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare) and which won’t (GoogleWave, Friendster, Bing!). The important thing to remember is to not get attached to any one format or program, and to be open to switching to new things. I just hope that I don’t get so attached to Facebook that if there’s a day when something else takes over I won’t be able to let go.

One of the things that I find interesting when I think about the future of the internet is how accessible it would be for those with disabilities. I was doing some coding at work recently and while my page looked great, I didn’t even stop to consider how it would display on a screen reader or how functional it would work with a speech-to-text program. With the World Wide Web moving towards a more semantic approach and everyone getting more interdependent on the web, I wonder if those who might have trouble accessing the web will have an even more difficult time in society.
In many ways, there are various programs that have been developed in the past decade that have made it easier for those with disabilities to access the web: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/pla/plapublications/platechnotes/accesstools.cfm . The Web Accessibility Initiative is also a great place to get involved with materials on universal access: http://www.w3.org/WAI/. With web pages becoming more and more complex, it might be harder and harder to find an access tool that could give people with disabilities the full experience of that web page.
The article about libraries having a disconnect with millennials apply to people with disabilities also. If librarians are still thinking that constructing a ramp outside of the library for people with wheelchairs is as much as they need to do to be consider accessible, they are wrong. Libraries need to keep up with technologies for their patrons with disabilities so that no matter what future the web takes, they can still keep up.

I was at the ACRL conference this past week and a team from the Columbia University presented a paper on the digital archive that is currently at their college: http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/humanrights/hrwa.html. Developing an archive for webpages is a difficult task, with the internet being so dynamic and its contents changing at a breathtaking pace. One of the difficulties mentioned was the seeking of copyrights, since Columbia University has the rights to archive these pages for an academic purpose, yet they want to take the time to get the permission from the creator of these pages.
A good point that was brought up in their copyright statement is that because a webpage is often a joined effort, there could be an image or a specific part of the webpage or website whose copyright belongs to another person other than the website’s owner. This could make the process of requesting for copyright quite difficult. However, archiving webpages is an important part of keeping the history of the internet. Copyright laws for the internet is definitely going to be a hot topic in the next few years, and it is going to be interesting to see how librarians will fit into this conversation.

Here’s my review of QR Codes:

http://liankate.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/qr-codes/