The first part of this, the video, was irrelevant to me. Everyone holding up handwritten signs on notebook paper about their statistics of daily life, and internet use was sad. Being of another generation, it's hard to imagine how all this technology has improved the life of a student. There is too much emphasis on communication with friends, and searching the web for items of marginal interest and not enough on actual learning.
As far as the change in the money aspect of the music business, this does not concern me either, although I know it will impact my grandchildren's lives. They will never know "the way it used to be."
Change is good for the library systems. It's good to know that serious (even not-so- serious) students have so many more tools at their finger tips for learning, IF they will utilize them. To that end, library workers must avail themselves of the abilities to at least be familiar with these new technologies.
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Hi Music Lady,
The point of that video was that the life of a typical college student (or consumer or patron or customer) has changed pretty radically in the last 20 years, yet the services (teaching, education) provided by the university has not changed, essentially, since the 1800s. This creates an incredible gap between what the students need and what the school if offering. When this happens it creates an opportunity for some other organization, business, etc to step and fill that gap. Thus killing the university. The rest of the lesson highlighted other industries and businesses that have changed to better serve their customers. The bottom line is how are WE changing to stay relevant and prevent any gaps from occuring between us and our customers?
Tom
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