week 10:podcasts ... more library mashup reflections

I was thinking about mashups when I came home from school today, thinking about a "library mashup". I did some looking around and found an interesting slideshare, by Nicole Engard, demonstrating the value of using mashups in the library:http://www.slideshare.net/nengard/library-mashups. Some of these ideas would work in a school library setting ... mapping mashups, for example, would be great as a teacher-librarian would have access to current geographical data from the internet. This makes me think about Breeding's comments. Is using mapping mashups in a library lesson an example of Breeding's point ... that we must use computer applications to stay current? A library is a place where one can go in order to find information and, as a result, we owe it to our patrons to provide information that is up to date. We have the resources to do this now and can use the computer (the internet) as our main source of information . So, yes, Breeding is correct, combining the traditional library world with the new computer world, is necessary.