Final Comments

It's been a long road to get to the end of these quests. I'm glad I was able to do it and I appreciate the opportunity given to us. It was fun to watch YouTube on work time!

It seems like a long road because I had some difficulties in getting to all the quests: They started when I was on two weeks of vacation, so right away I was two weeks behind. Then I didn't have any headphones. This doesn't sound like much of an impediment, does it? But without headphones I couldn't even watch the initial video we were supposed to watch. Of course, I could have just watched it with the sound audible on my computer in the work room, but then I would have disturbed everyone else in the room, which I didn't think was fair.

The quests also came at the beginning of the school year, when I am most involved in my child's schooling and PTA activities. Time I might have spent on the quests on my own time could not be done because my time was already committed.

The quests also fell during evaluation time. I take my evaluations very seriously and it takes me a long time to complete them--more time taken away from available time to finish the quests.

So I was very grateful for the extra week to get the quests done. It would have been extremely difficult for me to finish last week.

Having the opportunity to take part in TechTrek 2.0 was great. However, learning about these things is only a small part of having library 2.0 become a part of CCPL. It doesn't matter how much you learn about, if you don't have the hardware for staff to adequately handle these quests, they can't be taken advantage of. And CCPL does not have adequate hardware. No matter how many websites, applications, and software we are recommended to explore, we're only as good as the hardware we have. This system does not have enough computers. Period. And many that we do have cannot adequately handle a number of the things we were asked to do.

Let's do the quests again for the rest of the people who didn't have the opportunity to take part this time. It's a valuable experience. I learned a lot. Thank you.