title: Learning to drive: developing a workable awareness plan for monitoring new technology.
abstract: Technology is constantly driving forward, and information professionals need to be informed about developments in order to work more effectively, provide new services, understand what users need and want, and to develop professionally. Learning how to monitor these developments in technology is a skill, just like learning to drive. This article provides information about developing a workable awareness plan and provides some suggested sites to monitor and tools to use.
authors.affiliation: University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642, USA. donna_berryman@urmc.rochester.edu <donna_berryman@urmc.rochester.edu>
authors.forename: Donna R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Berryman
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D004181:Directories as Topic; D007256:Information Systems / Q000639:trends*; D020407:Internet; D013672:Technology