MLIS Experience

 Crowdsourcing- the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Can a library really benefit from crowdsourcing?  What about my library- a middle school library for secondary students, grades 6-8.  I do feel my library could benefit from crowdsourcing. My library (like pretty much all of them) has a set of unique problems, and crowdsourcing can help with some of these issues. And, besides the problem-solving trend, open innovation seems to be something our library could use and benefit from in that we could seek the input from others in order to help our school's library to continue to improve. I am sure I could do I better job at this. Currently, I am mainly  using Instagram and a controlled Intranet environment to collect feedback and other data.  https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/library-crowdso...

  Cybersecurity. Not a day goes by without hearing some story about cybersecurity and the issues that pertain to it. Often, it seems as if it is the larger corporations and businesses, websites, banks, and so forth. However, something came up during our discussions in my graduate class, Social Media & Informatics, about security issues in our own libraries.  This is something I never though of before. Is our library server in our district safe and secure? What about individual user information? Is our school district even monitoring any of this?  The answer to all of these questions? I do not know. In fact, it appears my of the individuals in our technology department do not know, which is rather disturbing. The initial response for me was to contact Destiny (our library opac software system). So, I did just that! There answer? As quoted, "you need to speak with your technology department and system administrator that handles the accounts and distribution of the softw...