Saturday, May 17, 2008

Online Applications and Tools

Online Application Tools such as google.doc would be a wonderful tool to share with the many library clients who visit the library without any means to save their work. Once google.doc was joined the document could be saved there until it was able to be saved to thumbdrive.

Many secondary school students and universities have laptop programs at their schools and universities where group work on presentations is required. Most teenagers leave these assignments to the last minute!! We all have experienced that on the reference desk!!! All students could be working on their section of the document at their homes on the google.doc site and complile their documents without emails updating information going between students. All students could be working on the document up until the last possible time.

Likewise library staff could work on documents eg policy without the need to send the group involved in the project, updated emails at regular intervals.

Molly

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