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Reading Notes for 11/1

Developing and Re-imagining library....
I wonder why the GSU Library didn't expect things to be disorganized and inconsistent with multiple people working separately. But I guess hindsight is always 20/20. It was interesting to hear that the librarians have the option of tagging in CMS. Reading the article made me glad I won't be doing this type of stuff.

The Try It Yourself HTML was fun to play around with. I had to click back often to see what to do. CSS looked more difficult. The Introduction said you should already have some basic knowledge of HTML or XHTML. Something which I lack, even after reading and playing with HTML first. I love having clear and easy examples; thank you W3School.

Muddiest Point 10/25

I have no muddiest point this week. I was really interested to learn about the difference between the Internet and WWW. I have been using the words interchangeably.

Zotero & CiteULike Assignment 4

Here is the URL for my library: http://www.citeulike.org/user/sat72/library

I loved this assignment, it was so much fun.

Comments for 10/25 Week 7

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Reading Comments for 10/25

Sergey Brin and Larry Page on Google
I liked the video on Google, especially the awesome visual of the world with the colored lights! I almost cried from laughing so hard about Las Ketchup, my friend used to be in love with that song. It was really interesting that Google lives by a 20% rule; that employees can do what they want for a small portion of the time. The guys are great presenters and entertaining.

Dismantling Intergrated Library Systems
The issue of interoperability seems to be a big one everywhere. And like everything, money is an issue. I think that libraries should embrace new technologies but I know that it is hard for them because of funding and budgets.

How the Internet Infrastructure Works
It is so interesting to see how something that I use everyday works. When I turn on a computer and get on the web I never think about what is going on. This article was pretty long and some things are still over my head. However, I know way more than I used to.

Fasttrack Muddiest Point

Could you explain the use of P2P in regards to librarthing.com please?

JING Assignment

http://www.screencast.com/users/Sara_Tekavec/folders/Jing/media/3c9643b6-04bf-43e6-b26f-63d7eca246b0

There is the link to my JING video which shows how to access the libraries' websites tofigure out their hours and other stuff. I also show how the website can be used to find a University of Pittsburgh library using google maps. There is no audio, sorry!

Here are the links to the flickr screen captures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53971311@N07/5072478359/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53971311@N07/5073008314/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53971311@N07/5072420179/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53971311@N07/5072446065/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53971311@N07/5072516887/

Comments for 10/12

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Reading Notes for 10/12

Management of RFID in Libraries
I don't know if I see how great these tags will be. People will still need to manage a library because at some point something will go wrong with technology. Yes, it may speed things up, but by how much? These tags may be a great way to prevent theft in a library. But, are people really stealing that many books from libraries? I think this may be a great thing for a large library but I can't imagine smaller libraries embracing it (I am assuming these RFID tags are not cheap). I guess we will see how things pan out.

Computer Network -Wikipedia
If the optical fiber is so much better and faster than the coaxial and twisted cables, why aren't we using it? I am assuming it is probably more expensive and that is why. I have to say that when I was reading the wireless technologies and terrestrial microwaves was a bullet, I thought they were going to discuss kitchen microwaves! I just thought I would include this because it really cracked me up. Although I had seen the acronyms before, I never knew what LAN, WAN, or PAN meant before reading this article. I was wondering if University of Pittsburgh employs a campus network or a metropolitan area network.

Local Area Network - Wikipedia
It is interesting that the attraction to using LAN was to share laser printers and disk space, because they were expensive. I have never even heard of Netware, Windows NT, or Windows for Workgroups. Thank goodness for the links to words and terms that wikipedia has!

Common Types of Computer Networks -Frank Klein (YouTube)
I really like that someone took the time to answer a question posted in the comments section. I went to the relativitycorps website and browsed for a bit. I read about Mr. Klein, and he is a pretty interesting guy. He was Assistant Superintendent of Information Systems in Pueblo School District 60. He also received some acclaim for his dedication to technology solutions. Among many other things. I liked the video; it was nice to hear it in the shortened version after reading.

Muddiest Point 10/4

I was wondering if you could clarify the differences between structure, semi-structured, and unstructured data. I am a little confused about them. The definition of semi-structured data (from my notes): is that is does not use tables in database for structure; does this imply that structured data does? Thanks!