A Librarian is an experiment, directed by Eric Lease Morgan at North Carolina State University, to examine the use of CU-SeeMe technology in librarianship and information seeking. We also asked what advice he has for libraries considering adopting the technology. Around Memorial Day I started asking myself how effective would the CU-SeeMe technology be in enhancing library services. Yet, there are times when a librarian's help is still needed to truely satisfy a patron's information need. It is a well known fact that communication is accomplished in many ways.
Telephone communications offer immediacy but lack essential non-verbal aspects.
Email mandates concise descriptions of problems. To my dismay, most times, when connecting to these reflectors, I found nobody there. How am I suppose to explore this technology, if I can't see anybody. Thus, there are only a small handful of people involved in the management of the project, maybe five. There are two reflectors used in this project.