Congratulations - You're the Person of the Year

Time's Person of the Year is YouThe 2006 recipient of TIME Magazine's coveted Person of the Year is none other than YOU. Yes, you, your staff, your patrons and everyone else. All thanks to our good friend, the World Wide Web.

What are you doing at your library to leverage this power-to-the-people democratizing force? Have you offered classes on Flickr? Started a library blog where patrons can leave comments? Uploaded library videos to YouTube? Showed teens online safety and how to Pimp Their MySpace?

If you haven't done anything yet, make it your New Year's Resolution for 2007! Because one thing is certain: this whole Internet thing isn't a fad anymore. If you're not surfing the wave, you're being left behind.

This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. It's a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who's out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you're not just a little bit curious.

Last updated: December 19, 2006 - 3:50pm by dylan

warm fuzzies
Comment by: anna; December 19, 2006 - 7:27pm
I really liked this article - and not just for the warm fuzzies. Of course I like things that are near and dear to my heart getting mad props from TIME, but I also think this article proves that the way we interact with technology has changed - and will continue to do so. Hopefully this will be a heads ups for those who are still examining the sand. The everyday needs of our patrons have changed, and its our duty as people serving the public to meet those needs. Before we can help our patrons though, we need to educate ourselves. As librarians we've got tools and ability in spades - what we need is motivation and time.

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