And in Conclusion...

No more Play to Learn? Usually I'm playing or teaching so it seems I have that play part down. I found that the required tasks were manageable. I was disappointed to read that people were working on their blogs at home because they did not feel as though they had time at work to do them. The point of this exercise was to learn new tricks at work. Other library systems seemed to have conveyed to the staff the importance of this program as legitimate training. Did we drop the ball globally or on a local level was there lack of support or are staff overworked? I feel strongly that everything we learn enhances our work experience and has potential to benefit our patrons. Just operating with the same vocabulary to navigate MySpace and Twitter and the rest will help us, even if we never go back to those Web sites again. I enjoy facilitating progress and change and if that's ultimately what this exercise does for LCLS, then I'm glad we did it. I would participate in a similar program on another occasion.

I hope that we will be able to use many of the technologies we have explored during this Play to Learn process. Certainly podcasts and videos have applications for our programming. Book discussions, genealogy, and crafting programs could all be delivered or enhanced through technology. Subject guides, bibliographic instruction, and library tours are also fair game for technological improvement. What I hope and require of us is that we remember many patrons are not as technologically savvy as we are (and we have not always been this way, ourselves). We do not serve the machines, they serve us.