Reflection 1 (PLN)
When you work in an academic library, you are constantly thinking of new ideas and ways to improve your library. Ways to keep your students engaged and on track for academic success. One way is to ensure they have up-to-date technology they can rely on. Often, when it comes to technology, academic libraries tend to stick to what they are familiar with. What they know is being 20-year-old printers that make your scanned PDFs look like they were scanned in a moving car. When most of the technology is older than the target demographic of students, you know that something needs to change. I am proposing a KIC Bookeye 4 V2 Scanner because it directly addresses student needs and will enhance daily experiences for students, library staff, and faculty. As Carrie Spector states in the Stanford Report, "Technology is a game-changer for education – it offers the prospect of universal access to high-quality learning experiences, and it creates fundamentally new ways of teaching" (Spector...