One of the best things about using the Internet is all the free online applications and tools. You don't need to pay for many useful tools anymore because you can just download them. The only thing you need to worry is your download limit from your supplier and not giving away too much personal information when you sign up. No one would think we can now just DIY all those 'professional' work before. I am excited about some of the tools and they are now my favourite toys.
Google Doc is one of the website we recommend to clients when they want to use our PCs in the Reading Rooms to create a Word/Excel document. Overall, they are happy to use it ( I suppose they have no choice!) and I think it is straight forward and easy enough to use.
I am not sure about using these online tools at work. We got our own software provided by IT and I think we have some policies of getting approval from IT to use online applications. However, I love to use these tools for my personal use as it saves me a lot of money. Otherwise, I think sharing your documents, presentations and projects with your colleague is part of your everyday's work life and it is great to be able to do it easily with a online tool. Converting document to a different format eg. html, pdf is also getting more and more common now and it is handy to know there is a tool out there for me to use. The time saving factor is the motivator for us to use all these online tools.
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It is great that our clients can use these tools to help in their use of our collections and services.
Ellen (PLS)
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