Apparently I did the readings for week 11 instead of week ten. Oops. On the bright side, I wont have to do any readings next week! There are my notes for week 10 and I changed the other post to "Reading Notes- Week 11." Sorry that it's out of order.
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
This article about digital libraries was informative. The Digital Libraries Initiatives provided funding for improvement and implementation of digital library systems. I It is important to being working on technologies to benefit the library field. I wonder what further initiative projects have been created since this article was written in 2005. We continually are given readings about interoperability. I guess this is an issue that we will continue to come across in our education and careers.
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
I was surprised to read that part of DLI was the "uniting librarians with computer scientists." I suppose it shouldn't be such a surprise to me, but it seems like librarians have been pretty in-tune with technological changes. Then again, it has been at least 5 years since DLI began. While many of the topics brought up in this article shouldn't be new to us, (for example: "While information accession now rests on a highly technical infrastructure, the core function of librarianship remains. The information must be organized, collated, and presented.") This article was an interesting read.
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/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml
This article on Institutional Repositories discusses the implementation of institutional repositories, as technology changes, introduced a different form scholarly communication. This article brought up topics we have been discussing in our other classes in this program. Lynch states that institutional repositories improve access for users, which seems to be true of almost any information on the web. I find it interesting that this article was written eight years ago, and publishers continue to control research publications, rather than institutions maintaining their own repositories for the most part.
Brittany,
ReplyDeleteYour comments on the first article are very interesting. I too think that the implications of the DLI will continue to effect our careers as future librarians. The issues that librarians are facing now will probably not be the same issues five years down the road. What do you think?
-Katie :)
Katie, I think in some ways the issues we face will change, but in other they may stay the same. In terms of technological changes and improvements we will definitely have changed in the next five years. But, I think the issues with for example Voyager and Millenium will persist until people change them or they try open-source options like Koha. I think alot of the copyright issues that libraries have will stay the same till we have more Congressional or Judicial action. Basically it will be a mix.
ReplyDeleteThat's a really interesting question - I wonder what the relationship between comp sci and librarians was like when this Dewey-Turing article was written and in the early days of the DLI. Maybe what we see now is largely due to that.
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