Sunday, November 17, 2013

IMMERSIVE LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS



Immersive libraries and museums are becoming more and more popular as immersive education continues to grow. Scholars no longer have to make a trip to a library or museum to gather information from hard copies. They can cut back on that old book smell that gets all up in your nose. People can now log onto their computers and retrieve that information that would desire. Multimedia makes it even easier to obtain information. Being able to look at pictures, animated or non-animated, videos, listening to sounds and so on and so on, but the best part of this is that students learn to collaborate on different projects and actually get to see what is being put into the whole thing. Without having to leave the comfort of their bedrooms.

Now for librarians they are left to struggle with all the information constantly updating. Before immersive libraries were so popular librarians could wait for the next edition of a book to come up and then update files that way. But having the ability to instantly update information makes it a little more time consuming which also keeps the librarians on top of everything.

Museum education gives more visual experience than libraries do.  Immersive libraries also provide that same visual experience because the internet can provide three dimensional imaging. So that similar experience is being enhanced by having technology, take the guiding hand.

The information that can be found in libraries and museums no longer is bounded by physical boundaries due to immersive libraries. The amount of information that can be gathered and sent out has exponentially grown. With all of the technology at our fingertips gathering information is endless. Collaborating with people has become easier, even big corporations use all of these advancing technologies to stay on the cutting edge.

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