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Culture Morph
6/1/2007
So, when the librarians and the technologists at Immaculata put their heads together and look to the future, what do they see on the horizon? A move to a more integrated platform, says Rollison. "That way, when students come into the library, searching will be a lot more seamless than it is now. They won't have three or four places to find information, whether it be a book, piece of music, or article." And with eBay's Skype, the librarians hope to do even more. Isselmann says she envisions the librarians applying the VoIP service to their own offerings (the school already uses Skype to provide Writing Center services). Says the VP: "A student has a paper in front of her and she's talking hands-free on Skype to Writing Center staffers, and it's a one-on-one tutorial. They're not side by side; they're PC to PC. I see something similar for the librarians." They're calling it "co-browsing," says Isselmann, and the teaming of librarians and technical staff will be needed to deliver all of these new services, too.
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