Saya lebih suka membincangkan tentang Penilaian IT Pustakawan zaman sekarang. Memandangkan kita dah berada di zaman yang serba canggih ni, bagi saya IT sangat penting. Atleast, kita tahu some basic IT.
Sepanjang 6 tahun saya dalam bidang kepustakawan, saya lihat ada dua (2) trend librarian sekarang, satu yang memang jenis IT Literate dan satu lagi jenis kurang kemahiran dalam bidang IT, berdosa tak untuk saya katakana bahawa pustakawan yang agak ‘senior’ yang zaman pustakawannya pada era-era dulu agak ketinggalan dari segi IT. Maaf ye. Mungkin sebahagian.
Saya ada terjumpa satu article daripada https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/07/17/skills-for-the-21st-century-librarian/, pengarang bercerita tentang “Ability to easily learn new technologies”.
Dia mengatakan bahawa “one of her colleagues often comments that there are so many new technological things at the library that she can’t keep up. She was really intimidated by the new scanner we got this past year and asked IT to send an expert to the library to teach her how to use it. In my opinion, the best way for her to learn the scanner is to play with it. It’s hard to learn the scanner for the first time when a student is asking you how to use it. It’s easy to learn the scanner at a time when no one is using the scanner and you’re just casually playing with it. When I want to learn a new technology, I put it through the paces. I try to do all of the things it’s supposed to do. Sometimes I read the documentation if there are things that I find confusing. Learning about technology is definitely a skill. People need to learn how to learn about new technologies without having to ask other people for help all the time.”
Lihat betapa pentingnya untuk kita belajar dan terus belajar, atleast kita tunjuk some effort untuk kita learn new technologies tanpa mengharapkan orang lain. Kita willing untuk belajar dan cuba explore untuk diri sendiri.
Gais, this is my story! 