What I’ve learned this semester

Over the course of this semester, I have learned a lot of scanning technologies, blogging, the cost of creating a digital collection, and what actually goes in to creating one.  I also learned about the digital collections that are available out there.  There were a lot of them that I had never heard of before so this is a plus for me. 

As I was writing about my proposed collection, I found it fun to look up information about the different scanners and digital readers that would be necessary for the digital manga collection to be created and function to the benefit of the patrons.  I think the assignment helped me to see what building the collection would really entail although I couldn’t get through the the publishers I wanted to talk to in order to see if they would even  cooperate in the future.  I wish someone would create the collection so I could use it.   

One reverberating theme seems to be that we must create these digital library collections in a way that they can be used in the future.  In thinking on how to do this, I guess I would have to say that librarians shouldn’t just create a special software to make their collection because if it is the only version of that software and it isn’t compatible with other software then it will probably render the collection obsolete if something ever goes wrong with it.  

Even though it was a pilot course, I think I got a lot out of the class.

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