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Muddiest Points for 12/6

I have no muddiest points for this week.

Assignment 6

Here is the link to my Web Site.

http://www.pitt.edu/~kcc18/index.html

Comments for Unit 13

December 4, 2010 8:05 PM

I have meet all the comment requirements and it seems others have as well. It was hard for me to find those I usually follow to make any more comments.

Unit 13 Reading Notes

Week 13: IT Issues: Security and Privacy

No Place to Hide

As a child of the sixties this is not unfamiliar territory and one I would prefer not to think about but none the less  a reality we must live with and be aware of

EPIC Terrorism Information Awareness
Really?!

YouTube videos,  This video was unavailable and therefore I am unable to comment, but the other videos are pretty crazy. Facebook is out there and we either allow or accept it or not. We have no privacy if we choose to be public. Make an informed choice. Don’t put what you want private online.

12/3 Muddiest points for 11/29

I have no muddiest points for this lecture.

Comments for Unit 12

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Unit 12 Reading Notes

Week 12 Reading Notes

Unit 12: Social Software (11/29)
Required Readings:

1) Reichardt, R., & Harder, G. (2005). Weblogs: their use and application in science and technology libraries.
    Science & Technology Libraries, 25(3), 105-116.

The article explains a  history of blogging from the first website and discusses options for group projects and reference . Emails still seem to be a preferred method as I know I find following blogs tedious and of little interest to me. Credibility in reference based blogs is questionable. The article also offers web sites for a few commercial sites for creating your own wiki. Although I believe this to be out of date/

.  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. 4http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/apr/usingawiki.cfm

This article addresses the issues of what a wiki is, a way of sharing information and its use in the classroom.  Two advantages to library instruction wikis:  sharing knowledge and cooperating in creating resources.

3) Xan Arch, "Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution" C&RL News,
    February 2007 Vol. 68, No. 2http://www.ftrf.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/feb/libraryfolksonomy.cfm

Social tagging allows the user to create their own subject headings. Folksonomy created by library patrons can be problematic but allows for a wider range of dissemination of information.

4) Jimmy Wales: “How a ragtag band created Wikipedia”
    http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html 

Jimmy Wales on the Birth of Wikipedia was a very interesting video.  I never knew about this Web site that I use every day.  It’s made possible by thousand of everyday lay people Wales says, "It isn't perfect, but it's better than you'd expect," and that is how I use  Wikipedia--as a start or a launching point. Wales discusses how the Wikipedia Foundation handles controversies, how they handle quality control, what types of software tools they use, and how they are governed.  It is interesting Wales see that teachers beginning to use Wikipedia, and that he sees free-license textbooks as the future in education.

Muddiest Points for 11/22/10

I have no muddiest points for this weeks class.

Unit 11: Web Search and OAI Protocol (11/22)

 ReadingsNotes:

David Hawking , Web Search Engines: Part 1 and Part 2 IEEE Computer, June 2006.

These articles were interesting gave a summary of how search engines work. Part one discussed how information is indexed and how crawlers work. The second part dealt with algorithms and how the searchers, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are processing information faster than ever before. It is astonishing to me when I think of the magnitude and the capacity to process so quickly through so much information.

 Shreeves, S. L., Habing, T. O., Hagedorn, K., & Young, J. A. (2005). Current developments and future trends for the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting. Library Trends, 53(4), 576-589.

      The Open Archives Initiative, OAI was designed in 2001 to allow interoperability between various groups; to collect their own metadata and then share it. The idea was to have a standard among institution thereby allowing for the ease of sharing and accessing information.

3) MICHAEL K. BERGMAN,  “The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value” http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html

This article was fascinating to me.  I had never heard of such a thing as ‘The Deep Web”. I feel like the web is an infinite entity and now I learn through this article that the majority of information come from the ‘surface web’ and that the deep web is 500 times larger, most is public accessible, generally has a higher satisfaction rating, and a greater number of linked sites. I am left in awe and wonder.

Comments:

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Muddiest points for 11/15

I have no muddiest points at this time.

Unit 10: Digital Library, Institutional Repositories (11/15)

 Readings Notes:

    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

This was an interesting article to me. I had never heard of DLl-1 and DLl-2 before. The article gave a background for some of the early digital library projects. It went on and talked about the funding and how the internet was relatively new at the time and was instrumental in moving libraries forward into the technological age.

 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

This article looked at the relationship between computer scientists and librarians. The ‘rift’ between the two was interesting and can still be relevant today. The bottom line is that the two sciences are integrated to bring clear, concise and relevant information to the user.

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

This article discusses many of the issues we have touched on in all of our classes. The amount of information produced from institution is exponential and to organize and store it in a way that is easily retrievable is a monumental task.  Institutions must have or develop repositories that are adequate.

Comments:

November 19, 2010 6:14 PM

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Muddiest point:

I do not have any muddiest point for this week.

Unit 9: XML (11/8)

Muddiest point

I can not tell you how scary this is and I always hoped there would never be a need for me to learn it. Everything seems muddy to me at this point and I just hope I can get it enough to complete Assignment 6. Can you show me an example of what I might need to know this for as a librarian?

Comments 

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November 19, 2010 

Reading Notes

      Martin Bryan.  Introducing the Extensible Markup Language (XML) http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/internet/web/xmlintro.htm

 Thank you fellow classmates for helping me find and access this. The article was based on the background of XML and it structure. I was confused though ….what students according to the BURKS would need this? Is this entirely out of date?

 Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand1.html

Once again this article or should I say articles went way over my head. With no background in this it has managed to scare me even more should I need to prove capable. However there are good solid tutorials and did give use examples and I will store this away for future reference.

 Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz PDF

This article had some great examples as well and made the differences between HTML and XML a little clearer. Of course one again for one with no background in this area it is so much to try and grasp all at once.

 XML Schema Tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/default.asp

The article like the one we read last week had clear and concise tutorials. I think the basics are here. I hope!

Assignment 5: Collection Building in Koha ILS

kcc18

Fungi Facts

http://upitt01-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=61

This task surprised me. Perhaps it was just me, but I wanted to save more than one book at a time and found I had to restart the search from the marc record and go through the search each time. It was really time consuming!  Did I miss a way to toggle back and forth or leave the search results up?

Muddiest points for 10/25

I don't have any muddiest points at this time.

Week 8 Comments

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Week 8 Reading Notes

W3 Schools HTML Tutorial - HTML Cheatsheet

These articles were clear and well written even for one that has a tendency to glaze over at the prospect of learning something in such a foreign area.  Hyper text Mark up Language (HTML) uses a set of mark up tags to describe web pages.

Web browsers ‘read’ documents and interprets them as web pages. I bookmarked the tutorial along with the list of tags for future reference. I can see where I might need to use this information in the future.

I really enjoyed being able to try out some of the examples and it demystified the process for me.

Beyond HTML Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system
By: Doug Goans, Guy Leach & Teri M. Vogel

This article was about a study that was conducted at a large University Library on the benefits of using a content management system (CMS). There were many of the details that were lost on me, but the overarching theory is that the CMS model allows libraries to retain control of publishing their web sites while clients can tag content. The conclusion stated the transition to CMS was positive and that its use would expand to other areas.

Assignment # 4 Personal Bibliographic Management Systems

http://www.citeulike.org/user/kcc18

Wow! I had a really hard time with this assignment. The learning curve was huge for me. I think it still is faster with the method I have developed for myself over the years. It would really help if i could sit down with someone that uses these methods and see the advantages when I am not under pressure to produce an assignment.

Internet and WWW Technologies (10/25) Week 7

Sorry for the brevity I had this all typed out and went to search something and came back and it was gone! So now I am doing it over in word and will cut and paste.

 Tyson, Jeff. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-infrastructure.htm/printable

Great graphics! Easy to understand and quick video. From the inception the Internet free and accessible by all has grown exponentially. Finally a nuts and bolts picture of how the Internet works.

 Andrew K. Pace (2004). Dismantling Integrated Library Systems. Library Journal, 129(2), p.34-36. Full Text

This was an interesting and timely article for me. My library system has just gone through the process of finding a new ILS and will begin the changeover, spending several months preparing for a smooth transition.

 Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Inside the Google machine.
    http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sergey_brin_and_larry_page_on_google.html 

Finally the answer to the burning question....Seriously, these guys clearly explain the Internet connections and what they are working on. This is a bit dated and I have seen it before  but it is a real concrete look at the Internet.  I would like to see what the Internet world looks like now.


 I think the company is incredible. What a dream job that would be. I did not realize the extent of their charitable contributions. Also this is a great example of project management and organization.

Lots of good humor and enjoyable to listen to.

October 22 Muddiest Points

This was FT weekend and I got my questions answered in class. I have no muddiest points this week.

Assignment 3 Jing

http://www.screencast.com/t/ceF81Yx2uwVz 


http://screencast.com/t/rLfYhxPsok

http://screencast.com/t/VJsdZKUP8r

http://screencast.com/t/pRLJlyi9Iqcm

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