| Staff, NPR. “Before The Internet, Librarians Would ‘Answer Everything’ — And Still Do.” NPR, 28 December 2014, https://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373268931/before-the-internet-librarians-would-answer-everything-and-still-do. Accessed 23 May 2023. |
This article emphasizes the idea that even though we have devices that hold all the information, we still rely upon dated methods to answer our questions. Librarian Rosa Caballero-Li details how people still write to librarians with bright questions, looking for satisfactory answers. Caballero-Li further highlight the role of a librarian and their necessary expertise. I wanted to quote a certain phrase in the article that, to me, made me think back to when technology wasn’t widely known yet.
| “How Mobile Phones are Making Our Lives Convenient – Liberty Title.” Liberty Title and Escrow, 6 March 2023, https://libtitle.com/how-mobile-phones-are-making-our-lives-convenient/. Accessed 23 May 2023. |
Explains the usage of phones and how they helped us through our daily lives. The author then showed a few examples of what a phone can and cannot do. With this source, I could pull ideas out that are generally used in a phone and try to bring the main audience.
| Howarth, Josh. “Time Spent Using Smartphones (2023 Statistics).” Exploding Topics, 9 January 2023, https://explodingtopics.com/blog/smartphone-usage-stats. Accessed 21 April 2023. |
Used in my Assignment 2, I believe this source gives us a lot of statistical results of phone usage and it would be helpful when I write on my Assignment 3. This source is also up to date and has some database of 2013 as well.
| “COVID-19 digital transformation & technology.” McKinsey, 5 October 2020, https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/how-covid-19-has-pushed-companies-over-the-technology-tipping-point-and-transformed-business-forever. Accessed 24 May 2023. |
Like phone usage, this source shows the drastic change from in-person to online learning experience and how it affected the world whether it is work or school. They also present graphs and charts of the past few years.