Final Posting

I am late in summing up my onsite visit as I am prohibited from accessing blogs, social networks, IMs and the like when I am at work. All those things are prohibited on a military computer network and are blocked by the computer security software. We are not even able to use a USB storage device due to the fact the viruses can be introduced into the network very easily when using such devices-or so I have been told. Since the library I visited is on a military base, it is also faced with those same restrictions. Because of this, the library staff feels as if it is very hard to be really responsive to the patrons' wants/needs as far as web 2.0 technology goes. They would like to be able to offer all the 'bells and whistles' that people have come to expect from the Internet but they just can't. Despite of this, however, the staff at the Fort Rchardson library is doing a very good job at keeping their patrons happy within the limits that are imposed on them.