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Week 6 Reading Responses

Local Area Network Wikipedia

• I'm an admin assistant and often have to submit LAN requests for new employees or employees moving to my building, it's nice to finely know the basics of what an LAN is and why it needs to be requested.

Computer Network Wikipedia

• I'm happy we're not being quizzed on all of the different network types, they all seem so similar to me by the descriptions in the wikipedia article. It seems like the most minuscule of differences separates them.
• So basic hardware components are the "tools" that enable these networks to operate?
• I'd like an explanation of how routers work in simpler terms.

RFID (Coyle article)

• Enjoyed reading how RFID would be applied in a library and not how it works. I'm in the program for the for the love of reading and literacy, not technology, so it's nice to see something about how the technology will be utilized in a library
• I don't understand the privacy issue mentioned in the article...
• Concern: cost of tags or outfitting all items with RFID capabilities vs. duration of use

Muddiest Point Week 5

When we shrunk down our pictures fo rthe flickr assignment using pixlr to the thumbnail size, was that considered compression? If so, lossy or lossless?

Assignment #3 Personal Bibliographic Managment Systems

NOTE: The library documents imported from Zotero are noted as "file-import-02-09-23" in the tag and the 9 articles found within citeulike contain "fromciteulike" within the tag.

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Week 5 Reading Responses

Webb's article on YouTube and libraries seemed a bit over enthusiastic to me. I just don't get that these two entities should really have a strong relationship, they're not that compatible to me. Perhaps its because I've never directly used YouTube that I don't see how it could really benefit a library. Is it because I don't use this tool that I wouldn't think of it in relation to a library? If I wanted to see what a libraries got in it's catalog or how it's physically laid out, then I'd either view the catalog online or go there myself. And who's going to do the YouTube for the library? With all the funding issues we continuously hear about in library school, what library has enough resources to allocate some to this venture? Hello volunteers!

I loved the imaging Pittsburgh project and thought it was a really interesting article to read. What I found most striking is that all of the different organizations were able to work together to get the images out there. I took a look at the actual website and it was interesting. Looking at photos from the 1800's seems very surreal, I look at them and it's like they're fakes because they're just so different than posed photos of today. I was also happy the article was not technical, but more oriented to the overall project itself. It's neat to see skills we're learning in the course being used for "real" projects.

Week 4 Muddiest Point

• I still don't know what XML is...
• What's the difference between "compiler" and "interpreter"?

Flickr Assignment

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Week 4 Reading Responses

The Wikipedia Database article didn't clarify for me what exactly a database is. Now, unless I'm mistaken, I think a database just serves a repository for information within a computer. It's where files, information and data are stored. But then I think, "can it be that simple?" I realize the construction/maintenance of a database isn't, but right now I'm just trying to be sure I understand the purpose of it. Often times if I don't know why something does what it does , I don't care to much about the background because I don't even know why it's there in the first place! I do use databases all of the time at work and do believe that they are digital filing cabinets.

Ahh, Metadata. Metadata is extremely important to the organizational world, but whenever I hear the word, I just cringe. I feel it's a bit overblown. As it simply states in Gilliland's article, metadata is "literally data about data". Maybe because it's starting to fall onto the technical side of library science, but I find it a dry topic not exciting at all. Doesn't it all just boil down to one "thing" being used to represent and/or build a path to that "thing" or similar "thing" within that family of "things"? Sorry to use "thing", but the word document gets tiresome after awhile and I don't think I'm in the camp that feels a document can be anything.

Week 3 Muddiest Points

• OS provide memory management by allocating memory for programs, but how does "it" know how much memory to allocated for each program?
• I understand what the Disk Defragementer does but not what it is; is it simply a program of the OS?
• I'm confused by Google vs. Google Chrome, what's the difference?