This article in Business Week suggests that email is on its way out and that more collaborative tools like wikis are on their way in. I agree and already see this change taking place in committee work, etc….
One funny line sparks additional questions: “None of this is to imply, however, that e-mail is on its way to floppy disk-dom.” The author obviously views floppy disks as a dinosaur technology. Are you still buying computer disks with floppy drives? Do your patrons still use floppy disks?
Comment By: Mary Linse
December 6th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
We no longer buy computers with floppy drives. We do provide USB external floppy drives for anyone who needs one.
Comment By: sharon
January 1st, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Same here, we have to have USB external drives for customers who don’t have a CD burner at home or who don’t know what a jump drive is…though we are having folks come in with their Christmas i-pods
I also encourage folks to e-mail themselves their document/picture/etc. as an attachment. Then they can let Yahoo store the file and access it from anywhere.
I personally hate CDs and CD burning. It’s overly complicated and difficult to re-write to a CD. I’m liking jump drives much better.
Sharon