Week 3

  It must be stated that when new information technologies emerge and can greatly benefit libraries, libraries will of course want to use them to compete and survive in the information industry. However, libraries are not going to immediately understand how these new technologies work, and how they can use them to their benefit. All they know are that these technologies are new, are improvements over previous technologies, are helping other libraries, and that they would greatly help their own library or library system; they just do not know how to go about approaching these technologies and using them. They need to be guided, helped, or get ideas on how to use these new technologies by researching and learning about how other libraries are utilizing them. It is in this research and learning process that I come in for this next week's assignment.

  My job for this next week is to help the Marin County Free Library get a start on using Axis 360 and 3M Cloud Library, which are new technologies to get information to patrons. Libraries are now learning to use these technologies and implementing them; both public and academic libraries. I am to find out what libraries use Axis 360 and 3M Cloud Library, and report back to my site supervisor on how these libraries are utilizing them, and how the Marin County Free Library can understand and use them too.

  More specifically, I am to find out...
 1. What libraries are using Axis 360 and 3M Cloud Library
 2. How these libraries are marketing Axis 360 and 3M Cloud Library
 3. How libraries are using Axis 360 and 3M Cloud Library differently
 4. Evaluate what these libraries are doing with Axis 360 and 3M Cloud Library
 5. Find out what to do and not to do with Axis 360 and 3M Cloud Library
 6. And get any additional information and support about how libraries are using Axis 360 and 3M Cloud Library to get information to patrons.