Wednesday, September 26, 2007

# 7 How my friendship with technology began

It was a dark and stormy night when I first began my relationship with technology. Well, actually I don't remember what the weather was like but I do remember that I was very scared to use my first personal computer in 1987. I never really understood DOS and therefore the computer was a very expensive word processor and I was never even comfortable with that (I remember handing in a 5000 word essay with everything underlined except for the bibliographic references).
Fortunately I didn't let my fear paralyse me and gradually, thanks to an updated p.c. and Microsoft Windows, I became familiar with the rapidly evolving technology. I was able to re-enter the library workforce after a lengthy break and embrace the technological changes that were happening.
Every year seems to bring new resources - a myriad of databases, ABS on-line, etc - and for me, 2007 will be the year of the blog.

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