I commented on this blog http://djd2600it.blogspot.com/ and on Jaime Filipek ‘s blog
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Reading for Week # 13
Reichardt, R., & Harder, G. (2005). Weblogs: their use and application in science and technology libraries.
Main points of this article are:
- All libraries grapple with the need to publicize their services to their patrons
- Marketing and outreach help determine who the library's audience is, what services to offer them, how to let them know that the services exist,
- This webliography collects examples of promotional materials, blogs, and library liaison programs to inspire creativity in marketing and outreach strategies for the scientific, technical and medical (STM) library.
- The purpose of the webliography is to provide examples of materials and approaches that are being used for marketing and outreach by libraries in general, and STM libraries in particular.
2) Charles Allan, "Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons"
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/apr/usingawiki.cfm
Main points of this article are:
- The multi-author, collaborative software known as a wiki, can be used by librarians to manage their work in library instruction programs
- A library instruction wiki can create better information sharing, facilitate collaboration in the creation of resources, and efficiently divide workloads among librarians.
- Library instruction wikis have two chief uses: the sharing of knowledge and the ability to cooperate in creating resources, such as informational handouts and guides.
- A library instruction program includes multiple librarians dealing with changing information and gaining independently held bits of knowledge
- Wikis are an excellent way to close these gaps and improve inefficiencies. Wikis are increasingly used to manage information in organizations, and libraries are beginning to employ them. Use everyone’s specific experiences and valuable individual expertise!
3) Xan Arch, "Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution" C&RL News,
http://www.ftrf.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/feb/libraryfolksonomy.cfm
Main points of this article are:
- You bookmark the sites you find, but soon your bookmark list is huge. You research from home and from work and you can’t always find the site you bookmarked yesterday. Was it on your work computer? Are you really finding all the sites that you need for your research? Can Google really find everything you want?
- Social tagging is a relatively new phenomenon that allows an individual to create bookmarks (or “tags”) for Web sites and save them online
- These tags include subject keywords chosen by the user and often a brief description of the site. Sites like del.icio.us allow users to share these tags and discover new Internet resources through common subject headings.
- The resulting collaboration is called a folksonomy—a taxonomy created by ordinary folks. In a way, this technology is making users create their own controlled vocabulary and assign subject headings to each Web site they visit. If we are already making classifiers out of ordinary people, why not bring social tagging into the library?
- So you want to try social tagging in your library. It was useful for your own research, and you can see that it would be a significant added service for your patrons. You’ve chosen the software, and you have found a niche for it in your library’s Web site. Now how do you create content?
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I agree with the ideas that these two articles pointed, and I would like to see all libraries adopt them.
4) Jimmy Wales: “How a ragtag band created Wikipedia”
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html
I really liked this video, and I think Wikipedia is a good source of information. I know that anyone can add and change information in Wikipedia. But I think most people who need information about some topic, first they read about it from Wikipedia and then they see what sources Wikipedia offer so they can read about the topic more.
Personally I like Wikipedia and I use it every day.
Main points of this article are:
- All libraries grapple with the need to publicize their services to their patrons
- Marketing and outreach help determine who the library's audience is, what services to offer them, how to let them know that the services exist,
- This webliography collects examples of promotional materials, blogs, and library liaison programs to inspire creativity in marketing and outreach strategies for the scientific, technical and medical (STM) library.
- The purpose of the webliography is to provide examples of materials and approaches that are being used for marketing and outreach by libraries in general, and STM libraries in particular.
2) Charles Allan, "Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons"
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/apr/usingawiki.cfm
Main points of this article are:
- The multi-author, collaborative software known as a wiki, can be used by librarians to manage their work in library instruction programs
- A library instruction wiki can create better information sharing, facilitate collaboration in the creation of resources, and efficiently divide workloads among librarians.
- Library instruction wikis have two chief uses: the sharing of knowledge and the ability to cooperate in creating resources, such as informational handouts and guides.
- A library instruction program includes multiple librarians dealing with changing information and gaining independently held bits of knowledge
- Wikis are an excellent way to close these gaps and improve inefficiencies. Wikis are increasingly used to manage information in organizations, and libraries are beginning to employ them. Use everyone’s specific experiences and valuable individual expertise!
3) Xan Arch, "Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution" C&RL News,
http://www.ftrf.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2007/feb/libraryfolksonomy.cfm
Main points of this article are:
- You bookmark the sites you find, but soon your bookmark list is huge. You research from home and from work and you can’t always find the site you bookmarked yesterday. Was it on your work computer? Are you really finding all the sites that you need for your research? Can Google really find everything you want?
- Social tagging is a relatively new phenomenon that allows an individual to create bookmarks (or “tags”) for Web sites and save them online
- These tags include subject keywords chosen by the user and often a brief description of the site. Sites like del.icio.us allow users to share these tags and discover new Internet resources through common subject headings.
- The resulting collaboration is called a folksonomy—a taxonomy created by ordinary folks. In a way, this technology is making users create their own controlled vocabulary and assign subject headings to each Web site they visit. If we are already making classifiers out of ordinary people, why not bring social tagging into the library?
- So you want to try social tagging in your library. It was useful for your own research, and you can see that it would be a significant added service for your patrons. You’ve chosen the software, and you have found a niche for it in your library’s Web site. Now how do you create content?
-
I agree with the ideas that these two articles pointed, and I would like to see all libraries adopt them.
4) Jimmy Wales: “How a ragtag band created Wikipedia”
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html
I really liked this video, and I think Wikipedia is a good source of information. I know that anyone can add and change information in Wikipedia. But I think most people who need information about some topic, first they read about it from Wikipedia and then they see what sources Wikipedia offer so they can read about the topic more.
Personally I like Wikipedia and I use it every day.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Reading for Week # 12
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
It talks about the “ Distributed information environment”
This distributed information environment is populated by silos of: full-text repositories maintained by commercial and professional society publishers; preprint servers and Open Archive Initiative (OAI) provider sites; specialized Abstracting and Indexing (A & I) services; publisher and vendor vertical portals; local, regional, and national online catalogs; Web search and metasearch engines; local e-resource registries and digital content databases; campus institutional repository systems; and learning management systems.
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
This article talks about Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative and how each of them relates to each other. after combining the word digital with library, three interested parties are immediately defined: librarians, computer scientists, and publishers.
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/newsltr/226/ir.html
The webpage does not work!
It talks about the “ Distributed information environment”
This distributed information environment is populated by silos of: full-text repositories maintained by commercial and professional society publishers; preprint servers and Open Archive Initiative (OAI) provider sites; specialized Abstracting and Indexing (A & I) services; publisher and vendor vertical portals; local, regional, and national online catalogs; Web search and metasearch engines; local e-resource registries and digital content databases; campus institutional repository systems; and learning management systems.
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
This article talks about Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative and how each of them relates to each other. after combining the word digital with library, three interested parties are immediately defined: librarians, computer scientists, and publishers.
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/newsltr/226/ir.html
The webpage does not work!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Assignment # 5 (Koha)
My topic is about RFID (Lis2600-RFID)
http://upitt04-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=45
http://upitt04-staff.kwc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/virtualshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=45
Friday, November 6, 2009
Reading for Week # 11
1) David Hawking , Web Search Engines:
I could not access to the article
2) 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.
- Current Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has been widely adopted since its initial release in 2001
- This article provides a brief overview of the OAI environment, two years out from the release of the production version of the protocol.
- It looks into some of the interesting developments within the OAI world, particularly the use of the protocol within specific communities of interest, the development of a comprehensive registry of OAI data providers, and a resolver for OAI identifiers that extends the protocol beyond its traditional use
- it documents some of the current challenges for both data and service provider
- and the article provides some of the possible future directions for the OAI protocol and community.
3) MICHAEL K. BERGMAN, “The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value” http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html- According to Michael K. Bergman:
- While a great deal may be caught in the net, there is still a wealth of information that is deep, and therefore, missed
- Traditional search engines create their indices by spidering or crawling surface Web page
- raditional search engines cannot "see" or retrieve content in the deep Web
- Deep Web sources store their content in searchable databases that only produce results dynamically in response to a direct request. But a direct query is a "one at a time" laborious way to search. BrightPlanet's search technology automates the process of making dozens of direct queries simultaneously using multiple-thread technology and thus is the only search technology, so far, that is capable of identifying, retrieving, qualifying, classifying, and organizing both "deep" and "surface" content.
- Search engines obtain their listings in two ways: Authors may submit their own Web pages, or the search engines "crawl" or "spider" documents by following one hypertext link to another.
I could not access to the article
2) 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.
- Current Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has been widely adopted since its initial release in 2001
- This article provides a brief overview of the OAI environment, two years out from the release of the production version of the protocol.
- It looks into some of the interesting developments within the OAI world, particularly the use of the protocol within specific communities of interest, the development of a comprehensive registry of OAI data providers, and a resolver for OAI identifiers that extends the protocol beyond its traditional use
- it documents some of the current challenges for both data and service provider
- and the article provides some of the possible future directions for the OAI protocol and community.
3) MICHAEL K. BERGMAN, “The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value” http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html- According to Michael K. Bergman:
- While a great deal may be caught in the net, there is still a wealth of information that is deep, and therefore, missed
- Traditional search engines create their indices by spidering or crawling surface Web page
- raditional search engines cannot "see" or retrieve content in the deep Web
- Deep Web sources store their content in searchable databases that only produce results dynamically in response to a direct request. But a direct query is a "one at a time" laborious way to search. BrightPlanet's search technology automates the process of making dozens of direct queries simultaneously using multiple-thread technology and thus is the only search technology, so far, that is capable of identifying, retrieving, qualifying, classifying, and organizing both "deep" and "surface" content.
- Search engines obtain their listings in two ways: Authors may submit their own Web pages, or the search engines "crawl" or "spider" documents by following one hypertext link to another.
Monday, November 2, 2009
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