In the beginning. . .

I have begun this process, and still have little or no idea what it is I am doing. So far I have read everyone else's blogs, viewed various little videos, set up a Google account and fretted a lot about this. So here it goes.

I am a relatively new librarian who is very old. No, really. When I went to graduate school the first time, data for my thesis had to be recorded on punch cards and fed into a computer that took up an entire room- maybe even an entire floor. I had such great computer anxiety that I paid another student to do this for me! When I went to graduate school again, for my library certificate, things had come a long way- but I hadn't. I learned (under protest) how to put assignments into a drop box (what? where did that just go?), do online discussion groups, use online resources like databases (you mean I can't just look this up in a BOOK?) and such. Now I spend about 8 hours in front of a computer screen, both at work and at home, check my e-mail and facebook compulsively and wonder what I would do without this [dumb] machine! Alas, somewhere along the line, I drank the Kool-aid.

I do view blogging as one of the more repugnant aspects of the online world. It seems as if too many people (not us, of course) seem to think that anyone else in the world even cares about what they have to say, when in all likelihood they don't. And the people who follow blogs, well, they just need to get off their computers and get a life.

Okay- case in point. . . I just clicked on "preview" to see how this thing looked, then went "back" to finish it and it was GONE! I am sure that speaks volumes to my reluctance to take on this whole project. Thankfully, I have exactly half a brain and figured out that my draft had been saved and so all was not lost. sigh. It is on to my next task. More later, if anyone is interested!