Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work
I think this article discusses the origins of how some libraries created digital libraries and how those early efforts affected future internet use. I think.
I felt like this article was a little disjointed and hard to follow, even though it was so short. Although, that could be entirely contributed to the cold I have right now affecting my attention span and reading comprehension.
Dewey Meets Turing
This article touches on the partnership between librarians and computer scientists when the idea of digital libraries was first introduced. Apparently, the internet came along and ruined all their best laid plans, and time revealed irreconcilable differences between computers scientists and librarians. I guess they think different, or something. But as new language is introduced in dealing with digital libraries and information gathering, the two fields are able to understand each other a little more.
The tone of this article was kind of flippant and irreverent and fun. I enjoyed it!
Institutional Repositories
What is this article even saying?? Is it in English? Oh wait, I think it's about the importance of libraries collecting their information in digital repositories? Oh, it's about "an organizational commitment to the stewardship of ... digital materials." Which apparently also includes lesson plans and concert programs. This guy means business, when he talks about preserving and organizing information! Okay, catalog and digitize the history of an institution, make it a living organism that is always growing and changing. Got it.
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Amy, the tension between the librarians and the tech guys sort of surprised me. I can see how their visions would have made them at odds w/ each other, though. Now it seems like everything everywhere now is focused on customer service aspects, so perhaps this focus has helped to repair rifts that'd been present between the two previously.
I switched the weeks too! At least we get to take next week off.
Amy,
I too enjoyed the Dewey Meets Turing article. The whole best-laid plans that looked good on paper and then slammed into reality aspect made me chuckle periodically.
I agree that at times Scientists and Librarians think differently. It's kind of like we (librarians) know how to tell time while Scientists would like to tell you how to build a watch.
Oh by the way I brough something back from Pittsburgh with me...a Cold! UGH!!!!
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