Strategies for You and For me...
Strategies for Everybody?
It was a stormy day for all of us last Wednesday. No one had expected that its going to be a one "HELLen" of a day---a day of struggle for each of us who have given their best to battle the angst of the tremendously pouring wind and rain just to attend the forum in Mandaluyong, with hope that we will learn something new that we could later impart to our institutions.
The presentation was very informative for information professionals who are not familliar with the existing reference sources on web. However, for groups who are quite knowledgeable with the references presented, the entire forum would be somehow insipid.
I guess the forum should have focused more on the "strategies per se" in effective searching.. and not with the resources available on web. It should have taught or informed at least the attendees on the latest and existing search strategies that could help them in maximizing the uses of those resources cited from web. Although, some a bit new strategies terms had been mentioned--like path finders ( quite same with bookmarking we discussed in Web 2.0?).
The information presented were quite inadequate to suffice the needed information of information profesionals who went all the way from different parts of the metro and even for individuals who came all the way from the Northern parts of the Philippines. It would have been better if the forum title was just changed to "Reference Sources on Web: Aid for Searching Information" rather than the one presented on "Strategies"... so that they could at least minimimized the amount of expectations withdrawn by the forum attendees way before they came for the forum.
Its a fact that not everyone are that sufficiently informed about the technological advances at present..but i guess, being part of the information professional communities, and being an information professional alone---had offered you advantages and responsibility to somehow take the initiative to know those things-- and implement it on your institution to help the user communities. And formulating or implementing it to an educational program requires you to have a stern plan on how you will implement it; and also on how you will know that it is effective also requires regular evaluation, and demands cooperation from the parent institution's faculty and administration. We, as information professionals should always present our initiative and be affirmative with our plans. There should be no room for uncertainties.We should know how to uplift our profession.
I agree that anyone could post anything on Web, but it does not mean that most of the thing there are not reliable. Information on Web are almost the same information from the printed materials--- a more advance way of presenting information. Information from printed materials is incomparable, but still it should not draw our interest away from the good resources that we could also find on Web. Its nicer to have a balance of both.. i believe we have our inquisitive minds to know what references are scholarly and what are not. We are surrounded by fast-changing informations, and Information is our LIVES FUEL, hence, Every second counts... No time to waste..Everyone should learn.
Although we are not able to hear and see what we have expected... it still had left a very important fact for all of us. LITERACY IS IMPORTANT.. not just for information professional but most importantly to the community that we are catering. Hence, its a must to each of us to take our part and do our best to help them be productive and knowledgable individuals for a better society.
More over, the forum presented a fact that it is not bad to be traditional.. and Its not bad to take sometime to look back where we have once started. I believe you cannot tell that there have been development or changes that had happened if you're not aware of its past..agree? Would you agree?
I believe what ever advances we have now, we also owe it to the Traditional. Hence, we should still show our gratitude by finding ways on how we could help them. Not all are given a chance to be knowledgeable--- for us individuals who had enough chance to be one, let's help create an informative society and environment for them. Let's help. ^_^ Let us all be literate! ^_^
Its true that the forum might not have presented the recent strategies for information searching that we expected. Nevertheless, it still presented strategy--- strategy on how we should view and value information and opportunities given to us to be knowledgeable individuals.
...A Strategy not to be boastful about our knowledge but to be more considerate to those who are experiencing inadequacies. It gives us a chance to do some sharing strategy ^_^
A chance to share what we know and what we learned from the university-- a strategy for you, for me, and for everybody.
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