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Monday, November 24, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Muddiest Point
Although this post does not pertain to a point of class that was unclear (class was very understandable!! ), I am wondering where I can find more information about resistance to digitization and the apparent downsides of digital libraries. Any ideas?
Week 12 Readings
Reichardt, R., & Harder, G. (2005). Weblogs: their use and application in science and technology libraries.
Science & Technology Libraries, 25(3), 105-116.
This article has provided me with several instances in which weblogs have been helpful yo my discipline as well as the hard sciences. In fields that emphasize empirical observation, weblogs aggregate information from several sources that have been approved for their quality of observation and field expertise. It also serves as an excellent means of communication between parties.
Charles Allan, "Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons"
C&RL News, April 2007 Vol. 68, No. 4 http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/apr/usingawiki.cfm
I recently engaged in lirbary isntruction as part of my appointment at Point Park University and have reached many of the same conclusions as the author of this piece. Personally, I view instruction as a natural extension of reference and believe that questions can be answered much mroe efficiently using a wiki. In librayr school, I have used several wikis to undertake projects and find that the services they offer are primarily responsible for keeping me educated and informed. I also see that instruction sessions can be very tiresome for many students. This is an excellent alternative medium!!!
Xan Arch, "Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution" C&RL News,
February 2007 Vol. 68, No. 2 http://www.ftrf.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/feb/libraryfolksonomy.cfm
Once again, I am reminded of my duties behind the reference desk. Social tagging could potentially take away a lot of my work, but it would also allow questiosn to be answered much mroe efficiently. In our current age, a librarian primarily functions on the customer service level as a means opf validating the quality of a source. On the other hand, social tagging might also just change the fucntion of my vocation as a manager of such tags in which I would be performing the same task through a different method. Overall, I am in favor of implementing social tagging.
Jimmy Wales: “How a ragtag band created Wikipedia”
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html
Wikipedia has always been a subject of great interest for me. I personally believe that it is one of the greatest creations in the past ten years. Although many articles contain profanity and information that is generally unreliable, one can always check the cited sources for comfort and as a means of beginning research. The creation of "The Free Encyclopedia" is definitely the most egalitarian undertaking I've ever encountered.
Science & Technology Libraries, 25(3), 105-116.
This article has provided me with several instances in which weblogs have been helpful yo my discipline as well as the hard sciences. In fields that emphasize empirical observation, weblogs aggregate information from several sources that have been approved for their quality of observation and field expertise. It also serves as an excellent means of communication between parties.
Charles Allan, "Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons"
C&RL News, April 2007 Vol. 68, No. 4 http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/apr/usingawiki.cfm
I recently engaged in lirbary isntruction as part of my appointment at Point Park University and have reached many of the same conclusions as the author of this piece. Personally, I view instruction as a natural extension of reference and believe that questions can be answered much mroe efficiently using a wiki. In librayr school, I have used several wikis to undertake projects and find that the services they offer are primarily responsible for keeping me educated and informed. I also see that instruction sessions can be very tiresome for many students. This is an excellent alternative medium!!!
Xan Arch, "Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution" C&RL News,
February 2007 Vol. 68, No. 2 http://www.ftrf.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/feb/libraryfolksonomy.cfm
Once again, I am reminded of my duties behind the reference desk. Social tagging could potentially take away a lot of my work, but it would also allow questiosn to be answered much mroe efficiently. In our current age, a librarian primarily functions on the customer service level as a means opf validating the quality of a source. On the other hand, social tagging might also just change the fucntion of my vocation as a manager of such tags in which I would be performing the same task through a different method. Overall, I am in favor of implementing social tagging.
Jimmy Wales: “How a ragtag band created Wikipedia”
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html
Wikipedia has always been a subject of great interest for me. I personally believe that it is one of the greatest creations in the past ten years. Although many articles contain profanity and information that is generally unreliable, one can always check the cited sources for comfort and as a means of beginning research. The creation of "The Free Encyclopedia" is definitely the most egalitarian undertaking I've ever encountered.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Week 11 Readings and Muddiest Point
1. Mischo, W. (July/August 2005). Digital Libraries: challenges and influential work. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/mischo/07mischo.html
I have often found myself extremely frustrated at the prospect of retrieving esoteric information because of how widely distributed I have found scholarly information to be. I do, despite my frustration, also share the belief that "seamless federation across distributed heterogeneous resources remains the holy grail of digital library work". In other words, this article has revealed to me the extent to which I am able to overlook the drawbacks of concepts such as open access and widely available information for everyone because of how much I enjoy the benefits. I also have new-found respect and the desire to adulate the NSF.
2. Paepcke, A. et al. (July/August 2005). Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/paepcke/07paepcke.html
I wonder how Melville Dewey would have actually reacted upon encountering a Turing Machine. This article traces an interesting history of the WWW as well as google and other search engines. It does, however, surprise me that library dependency on all things IT is not a more widely understood dependency. The librarians I have known in the past (and read about, my current employment is a huge exception to the following statement) have been at odds with technology people. As a future librarian, I understand that it is my task to utilize the benefits of IT in order to advance my own field.
3. Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml
I like to think that I currently attend an institutional repository because suich is definitely the place I would like to be. I think that the ideas expressed in this article show how academic institutions have not been utilized to their full potential. It seems as though they are performing tasks that may have been very well suited for libraries. It is the obli9gation of such universitities as the ones mentioned in the article to advance scholarly communication in any way technologically possible.
Muddiest Point
What is still difficult for me to understand regarding the latest "hand on point" is, firstly, how am I to record the outcome of my search for futurte discussion? Secondly (and MKUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY) I am interested to know how I can see the process of adding more terms lessens the number of retrieved documents in a search. I would actually like to see the number of documents decrease as I enter terms. Of course, I am just curious. Is there any way (technologically) that I can see this in action?
I have often found myself extremely frustrated at the prospect of retrieving esoteric information because of how widely distributed I have found scholarly information to be. I do, despite my frustration, also share the belief that "seamless federation across distributed heterogeneous resources remains the holy grail of digital library work". In other words, this article has revealed to me the extent to which I am able to overlook the drawbacks of concepts such as open access and widely available information for everyone because of how much I enjoy the benefits. I also have new-found respect and the desire to adulate the NSF.
2. Paepcke, A. et al. (July/August 2005). Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/paepcke/07paepcke.html
I wonder how Melville Dewey would have actually reacted upon encountering a Turing Machine. This article traces an interesting history of the WWW as well as google and other search engines. It does, however, surprise me that library dependency on all things IT is not a more widely understood dependency. The librarians I have known in the past (and read about, my current employment is a huge exception to the following statement) have been at odds with technology people. As a future librarian, I understand that it is my task to utilize the benefits of IT in order to advance my own field.
3. Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml
I like to think that I currently attend an institutional repository because suich is definitely the place I would like to be. I think that the ideas expressed in this article show how academic institutions have not been utilized to their full potential. It seems as though they are performing tasks that may have been very well suited for libraries. It is the obli9gation of such universitities as the ones mentioned in the article to advance scholarly communication in any way technologically possible.
Muddiest Point
What is still difficult for me to understand regarding the latest "hand on point" is, firstly, how am I to record the outcome of my search for futurte discussion? Secondly (and MKUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY) I am interested to know how I can see the process of adding more terms lessens the number of retrieved documents in a search. I would actually like to see the number of documents decrease as I enter terms. Of course, I am just curious. Is there any way (technologically) that I can see this in action?
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Week 10 Readings
Web search engines: This p[roved to be an enlightening article. It basically describes the process behind entering a url and the behind-the scenes of summoning up documents based on your search terms. For the most part, I did not realize that much work was dopne on the other end of a search. I( merely thought that the search results were purely generated by the terms I entered and not bu ID numbers. This article has proven to me that the ease of using a search engine actually involves a much greater process at hand. There are methods for imporvement in constant development.
OAI archives: This article proves to me that my taks as a librarian will never be complete and, accordingly, I will always have work to do (good thing). I've hear the argument that search engines have eliminated the need for librarians, but the amount of push for complete archiving of intertnet data has shown me that there will never be a point where thigns become complteely manageable for the common user.
Deep Web: The existence of the deep web has been a subject of great interest to mke. When you enter a term into google, you are bound to come up with resaults that several peiople have come up with before. In other words, retreigving a rare and desired piece of information seems more and more like an art. The amount of content and "bots" in the deep web shoiws how such information is much harder and potentiaslly more dangerous to retreive.
OAI archives: This article proves to me that my taks as a librarian will never be complete and, accordingly, I will always have work to do (good thing). I've hear the argument that search engines have eliminated the need for librarians, but the amount of push for complete archiving of intertnet data has shown me that there will never be a point where thigns become complteely manageable for the common user.
Deep Web: The existence of the deep web has been a subject of great interest to mke. When you enter a term into google, you are bound to come up with resaults that several peiople have come up with before. In other words, retreigving a rare and desired piece of information seems more and more like an art. The amount of content and "bots" in the deep web shoiws how such information is much harder and potentiaslly more dangerous to retreive.
Week 10 Muddiest Point
HTML and XML
Although we have covered this material extensively, I still have trouble understanding the level at which XML oversees HTML. In other words, when i am creating my own website and using code, how do I know when it is time to employ html (in the visual sense). I know thatr it serves the purpose of managing html, but I do not see why a person would need it unless they are managing a very large website will lots of html content. In other words (for our last assignment), do you think ti would be worthwhile to learn xml just to manage a small personal webpage?
Although we have covered this material extensively, I still have trouble understanding the level at which XML oversees HTML. In other words, when i am creating my own website and using code, how do I know when it is time to employ html (in the visual sense). I know thatr it serves the purpose of managing html, but I do not see why a person would need it unless they are managing a very large website will lots of html content. In other words (for our last assignment), do you think ti would be worthwhile to learn xml just to manage a small personal webpage?
Monday, November 3, 2008
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