Reading XI

The article “Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons” gave a nice overview of why the author believed that using Wikis libraries was an important thing to do. It also discussed how to make a wiki as well as what you can do with one.
The article “Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution” discusses how social tagging can be useful in the library. By creating bookmarked lists of sources, one is not only better able find their information, but use it. Libraries such as the University of Pennsylvania are experimenting with tagging, and I am sure that Pitt, being an I-school, will attempt to harness this new technology as well.
Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia- I always think that it is interesting to listen to people discuss their views of Wikipedia. After reading some of the comments, it is evident that not everyone trusts this source. I find it interesting that no one seems to question other encyclopedias. Just because they are given an authoritarian name does not mean that they are at all accurate. For all you know, the same people making the Wikipedia pages are writing the encyclopedia pages.
“Weblogs: their use and application in science and technology libraries” also discusses ways that libraries are attempting to extend themselves as a resource to the public. The author suggests that weblogs can be extremely helpful, and a technology that libraries should adopt.

Last set of comments

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2- https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057727177405306622&postID=4935807338853613397

Muddiest Point Ten!

I always wondered how easy it would be to manipulate page rank systems to display only the results you want to be displayed.

Week 10 Comments

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Website!

http://www.pitt.edu/~aaj8/index.htm

Muddiest Point Nine

After we have completed all 10 of our blog posts, muddiest points, comments (which, if we have done one every week, all we need are 2 more comments and a muddiest point next week,) and the website assignment, is there anything else that we have to post, or do? Or are we, other than attending class, basically done? Is there anyway that our TA's can grade the week 10 work a bit quicker than normal so that we can be sure that there is no other work/posts that we need to do?

Reading X

The article that William H. Mischo wrote gave a nice overview of the hurdles that need to be jumped in order to have a successful digital library. I really liked the idea that there is a "difference between providing access to discrete sets of digital collections and providing digital library services." I do believe that there is a lot of confusion between the two, and because of that, potentially in some cases, patrons are not getting all of the services they need. I noticed that the author cited Michael Lesk. I do not consider him the most credible source. In the book that we read in 2000, I believe that he suggested that the Internet only takes up 10G's of data.
The article Dewey Meets Turing talked a bit about the relationship between librarians and information technology. It has been made very clear in our classes that this relationship is an incredibly vital one. I particularly liked the section Mutual (Mis?)Conceptions. I thought there were some really interesting ideas presented in this section.
The article by Clifford A. Lynch discussed institutional repositories and some of the challenges that they face. I thought one of the more valuable aspects of this article was the section regarding the cautions for institutional repositories. Institutional repositories can really provide a lot of scholarly communication if set up properly. Lynch lists several reasons why repositories can fail (such as incorrect policy, management failure or incompetence, or technical problems.) These maybe aspects of our future jobs that we will have to become well versed in, in order to be successful.