Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Anne Pemberton
Assignment #2- Part Two
1. Warschauer, Mark. Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2003.
Mark Warschauer is a Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is a professor in the Department of Education, and the Department of Informatics. In addition to that he is the director of the University of California, Irvine’s Ph. D in Education program, and the founding director of the University of California, Irvine’s Digital Learning Lab. He was formally a professor and also conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Hawaii, Moscow Linguistics University, and Charles University in Prague. Professor Warschauer has written a lot of papers relating to technology, such specifically touching on the Digital Divide. He has also written multiple books that focus on the developmental of new electronic literacies. That specifically relates to the Digital Divide because with the “new” developments it is helping to help stop the “digital divide” from increasing. The intended audience is professors and the people who are interested in learning and possibly helping stop the digital divide.
2. Compaine, Benjamin M. The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.
Benjamin M. Compaine is currently a professor at Northeastern University. While being a professor he is also a senior consultant for the Innovation International Media Consulting Group. He was previously a Research Consultant at the MIT Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence. He received a lot of information about technology when he worked for Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) and was chairman of the Center for Information Industry Research. After working there he gained a lot of knowledge about digital advancements. When Mr. Compaine co-founded and became chief executive of the Nova Systems Inc. he continued to learn about the digital divide because that firm created and distributed software management information reporting in telecommunications centers. The audience of this book would people, scholarly or not who are trying to make their own opinion if the Digital Divide is an up and coming issue or just being made into a bigger deal than it needs to be. This source relates to my topic because it shows a lot of good examples about the myths and truths about the digital divide that I may have read. In comparison to my first document this gives more unbiased views on the digital divide and tells me on about neutral facts about how the digital divide is or isn’t affecting us.
3. Hongladarom, Soraj; and Ess, Charles. Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives. Hershey: Idea Group Reference, c2007.
Soraj Hongladarom is the director of the Center of Ethics of Science and Technology, and the Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University. He can be also be found in the Department of Philosophy in Bangkok, Thailand. He first received his B.A. (first class honors) in English at Chulalongkorn University. After that he received his M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Indiana. He finally received his Ph. D in philosophy at the University of Bloomington, in Indiana. He has had countless books, publications, and research grants to write about technology issues; specifically many about the Digital Divide. Charles Ess is the distinguished Research Professor, Global Studies Professor, Philosophy and Religion at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. He got his B.A. in Philosophy and German, at Texas Christian University, his M.A. in Philosophy (minor in Greek) at Penn State, and his Ph. D in Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. While getting his M.A., Ph.D, and after graduating he gave many lectures about philosophy and the philosophical issues relating to the digital divide. So far this is a different type of source compared to my other documents. This source not only is about the digital divide worsening and the base of it but talks about the “ethical” side of the digital divide. I feel that this would relate to more individuals who want to know about the “right or wrong” side of the digital divide.
4. Servon, Lisa J. Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2002.
Lisa J. Servon is the Associate Professor and Associate Director, Community Development Research Center at Milano. Milano is The New School for Management and Urban Policy. She received her Ph. D from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition professor Servon was recently the assistant professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Professor Servon mainly does her research and teaching focusing on community development, urban poverty, gender issues, and economic development. Research that I can gather from this source will be much different from my other sources because this source touches upon the broadness of the digital divide but also hones in on the economic affects and the way it can or will affect your community. She is a good source because she deals highly with community development and economic development at her previous place of work, and her current job. The audience that could possibly view this would be other scholars, people concerned with their current community and people who are concerned about the economics.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Reading Responce #4
Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Reading #4
Read, Brock. “Can Wikipedia Ever Make The Grade” Chronicles of Higher Education. (10/27/2006).
It wasn’t until recently that I learned that Wikipedia wasn’t as great at is seemed. I always thought of Wikipedia to be awesome because it had information on almost anything I wanted, I never got bad grades on the assignments that I got information from on Wikipedia so I thought it was perfect. This article talks about how really Wikipedia can’t be fooling you. Anyone can use additions or put in false facts or even delete facts on Wikipedia sources. I always saw the edit button on Wikipedia but I was either so caught up in getting my information it never fazed me as to what “edit” actually really meant.
In this article they talk about how “mob-edited” publications can obviously be untrue and actually cause controversy. Apparently a professor’s name and a politician’s name were defaced and were impacted by the allegations until they were able to show that it was an edited site and was in fact false. It got to the point where there was so much drama and falsifications that Mr. Halavais decided to conduct an experiment to see which sites were normally edited. He was able to find out that sites that were “trolled” were forums, blogs, and Wikipedia (obviously). These types of websites were subject to a lot of false and disruptive statement. Despite my lucky of never receiving any bad grades, or had teachers correct me on my “inaccurate facts” in Mr. Halavais’s experiment showed that Wikipedia continues to provide students with mixed-often failing grades.
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Reading #4
Read, Brock. “Can Wikipedia Ever Make The Grade” Chronicles of Higher Education. (10/27/2006).
It wasn’t until recently that I learned that Wikipedia wasn’t as great at is seemed. I always thought of Wikipedia to be awesome because it had information on almost anything I wanted, I never got bad grades on the assignments that I got information from on Wikipedia so I thought it was perfect. This article talks about how really Wikipedia can’t be fooling you. Anyone can use additions or put in false facts or even delete facts on Wikipedia sources. I always saw the edit button on Wikipedia but I was either so caught up in getting my information it never fazed me as to what “edit” actually really meant.
In this article they talk about how “mob-edited” publications can obviously be untrue and actually cause controversy. Apparently a professor’s name and a politician’s name were defaced and were impacted by the allegations until they were able to show that it was an edited site and was in fact false. It got to the point where there was so much drama and falsifications that Mr. Halavais decided to conduct an experiment to see which sites were normally edited. He was able to find out that sites that were “trolled” were forums, blogs, and Wikipedia (obviously). These types of websites were subject to a lot of false and disruptive statement. Despite my lucky of never receiving any bad grades, or had teachers correct me on my “inaccurate facts” in Mr. Halavais’s experiment showed that Wikipedia continues to provide students with mixed-often failing grades.
Reading Responce #3
Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Reading #3
Bell, Steven. “The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer An Appetizing Alternative To Google.” Chronicles of Higher Education Vol. 50, 24 (2/20/2004).
When ever I am in a time of need or don’t know an answer to a question my typical response is, “I don’t know…Google it.” This article talks about how that statement right there is what they are trying to fight. In the article they talk about how libraries offer more information regarding our subject topic and the information you find in the library is always accurate while the sites that come up on Google may inaccurate or are only displayed because they pay Google to put them up there.
Mr. Bell talks about something that we actually touched on in class. Libraries spend a ridiculous amount of money a year on renewing their subscriptions to academic journals, and much more. These hosts make a crazy amount of money and it is only able to be viewed if you pay for the journals. This enables many students to have better more concise information which we should utilize.
As I stated earlier Google doesn’t always offer sites that really meet the criteria you need. The dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, James Morris has even coined the phrase “infobesity.” This term is talking about how on Google searches you, “receive overwhelmingly amounts of low quality material that is hard to digest and leads to research papers of equally low quality.” In the article they talk about how they are going to hopefully start to get students to use more sources from the library. The way they are trying to do this is make is less “confusing.” Obviously so if sources are difficult to find in the library and Google is so much easier people are reasonably going to use Google.
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Reading #3
Bell, Steven. “The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer An Appetizing Alternative To Google.” Chronicles of Higher Education Vol. 50, 24 (2/20/2004).
When ever I am in a time of need or don’t know an answer to a question my typical response is, “I don’t know…Google it.” This article talks about how that statement right there is what they are trying to fight. In the article they talk about how libraries offer more information regarding our subject topic and the information you find in the library is always accurate while the sites that come up on Google may inaccurate or are only displayed because they pay Google to put them up there.
Mr. Bell talks about something that we actually touched on in class. Libraries spend a ridiculous amount of money a year on renewing their subscriptions to academic journals, and much more. These hosts make a crazy amount of money and it is only able to be viewed if you pay for the journals. This enables many students to have better more concise information which we should utilize.
As I stated earlier Google doesn’t always offer sites that really meet the criteria you need. The dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, James Morris has even coined the phrase “infobesity.” This term is talking about how on Google searches you, “receive overwhelmingly amounts of low quality material that is hard to digest and leads to research papers of equally low quality.” In the article they talk about how they are going to hopefully start to get students to use more sources from the library. The way they are trying to do this is make is less “confusing.” Obviously so if sources are difficult to find in the library and Google is so much easier people are reasonably going to use Google.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
part 1: Assignment #2
Kimberly Rhine
Ms. Anne Pemberton
Ms. Sue Ann Cody
Part 1: Assignment #2
I chose the Digital Divide as my topic because I have had firsthand experience with my grandparents and parents becoming technologically advanced as time goes on. My mother has just recently starting texting me if she has been in meetings while my father has been sending book like messages on his full key pad black berry for a good year or so now. My father’s sends me emails all the time just updating me on his life, emails about what has been going on in the world, and even stopped sending real cards because he loves to send digital E-cards now. Meanwhile my mother’s father hates technology. He gets so frustrated at his computer.
The topic I have chosen is basically about helping our community become technologically stable, and touches on how we need to even help people in other countries understand technology so they can begin to even have the desire to want a computer.
Ms. Anne Pemberton
Ms. Sue Ann Cody
Part 1: Assignment #2
I chose the Digital Divide as my topic because I have had firsthand experience with my grandparents and parents becoming technologically advanced as time goes on. My mother has just recently starting texting me if she has been in meetings while my father has been sending book like messages on his full key pad black berry for a good year or so now. My father’s sends me emails all the time just updating me on his life, emails about what has been going on in the world, and even stopped sending real cards because he loves to send digital E-cards now. Meanwhile my mother’s father hates technology. He gets so frustrated at his computer.
The topic I have chosen is basically about helping our community become technologically stable, and touches on how we need to even help people in other countries understand technology so they can begin to even have the desire to want a computer.
Monday, September 29, 2008
News Report #5
Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Assignment #5- News Report
“Visual Studio 2010 to Come With ‘black box’” By Ina Fried. September 29th, 2008. < http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10052412-56.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 >.
I’m sure we are all familiar with the “black box” that goes in planes is equipped with recorders to capture both cockpit audio and flight data to figure out why a plane crashed. These boxes are basically indestructible and can withstand fire, intense pressure, and crashing millions of miles down that. You would have thought that we would have thought of this sooner but Microsoft is actually aiming to give software developers the same kind of technology. They are planning on calling this new device the Visual Studio 2010. They are doing this to not necessarily protect the software but to better help programmers make the software better for their customers. Microsoft is trying to get the Visual Studio 2010 to have the ability to record full screens of what testers are seeing, as well as data about their machine. If or when the test application “crashes” the technology with help enable developers to see what kinks they need to get out of their software and see what the “bugs” are.
This program should not only make money for Microsoft but should help the software makers save time and money in fixing their problems which in the end is a win-win for everyone. I’m sure that many people have or at least know about TiVo or have a DVR box; well this is what the Visual Studio 2010 id designed to do. It’s almost like a TiVo or DVR for debuggers. This essentially is going to cut down so much time, and will hopefully give software makers more time to continue to create better technology which is only going to help society.
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Assignment #5- News Report
“Visual Studio 2010 to Come With ‘black box’” By Ina Fried. September 29th, 2008. < http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10052412-56.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 >.
I’m sure we are all familiar with the “black box” that goes in planes is equipped with recorders to capture both cockpit audio and flight data to figure out why a plane crashed. These boxes are basically indestructible and can withstand fire, intense pressure, and crashing millions of miles down that. You would have thought that we would have thought of this sooner but Microsoft is actually aiming to give software developers the same kind of technology. They are planning on calling this new device the Visual Studio 2010. They are doing this to not necessarily protect the software but to better help programmers make the software better for their customers. Microsoft is trying to get the Visual Studio 2010 to have the ability to record full screens of what testers are seeing, as well as data about their machine. If or when the test application “crashes” the technology with help enable developers to see what kinks they need to get out of their software and see what the “bugs” are.
This program should not only make money for Microsoft but should help the software makers save time and money in fixing their problems which in the end is a win-win for everyone. I’m sure that many people have or at least know about TiVo or have a DVR box; well this is what the Visual Studio 2010 id designed to do. It’s almost like a TiVo or DVR for debuggers. This essentially is going to cut down so much time, and will hopefully give software makers more time to continue to create better technology which is only going to help society.
News Report #4
Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Assignment #4- News Report
“How ‘carders’ Trade Your Stolen Personal Info” By Robert Vamosi. September 29th, 2008. < http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-10053523-57.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.0 >.
I chose to do my news report on this article because it really think it is something that could really benefit you to have knowledge of. Unfortunately because of today’s technology debit cards and PINs are “hot subjects on the criminal underground forums these days,” says Tom Rusin. Tom Rusin is the president of the North American operations at Affinion Group. Affinion Group is a company that monitors the criminal underground for several thousand banking institutions by lurking in carder chat rooms. Basically Tom Rusin is a very intelligent man who has great knowledge about the Debit Card/PINs crime.
When I was first reading the article I really didn’t know what a “carder” was. A “carder” is someone who buy, sell, and trade on the credit card data stolen from phishing cites, or from large data breaches at retail stores. I personally have never had my Debit Card numbers stolen, and had my PINS messed with but now I understand all the commercials lately talking about identity theft, and how to protect you. I didn’t realize that this was becoming such an issue lately.
In the article they tell you that Affinion just told the FBI about .Mac users who were
victims in s phishing scan. To me this was very scary because a lot of people use the Mac websites, regardless if it is for their iPod’s, the new popular iPhone, their iTouch, Mac computers, and much much more. They hackers have been targeted “bulletproof” cites, which are sites that are so large that they have almost no chance of ever being shut down. They tell you to make sure that on the browser you see https if you are giving your credit card or pin or something. This tells you that the site is secure. Although they have those precautions there are still ways that hackers can unfortunately get a hold of your information.
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Assignment #4- News Report
“How ‘carders’ Trade Your Stolen Personal Info” By Robert Vamosi. September 29th, 2008. < http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-10053523-57.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.0 >.
I chose to do my news report on this article because it really think it is something that could really benefit you to have knowledge of. Unfortunately because of today’s technology debit cards and PINs are “hot subjects on the criminal underground forums these days,” says Tom Rusin. Tom Rusin is the president of the North American operations at Affinion Group. Affinion Group is a company that monitors the criminal underground for several thousand banking institutions by lurking in carder chat rooms. Basically Tom Rusin is a very intelligent man who has great knowledge about the Debit Card/PINs crime.
When I was first reading the article I really didn’t know what a “carder” was. A “carder” is someone who buy, sell, and trade on the credit card data stolen from phishing cites, or from large data breaches at retail stores. I personally have never had my Debit Card numbers stolen, and had my PINS messed with but now I understand all the commercials lately talking about identity theft, and how to protect you. I didn’t realize that this was becoming such an issue lately.
In the article they tell you that Affinion just told the FBI about .Mac users who were
victims in s phishing scan. To me this was very scary because a lot of people use the Mac websites, regardless if it is for their iPod’s, the new popular iPhone, their iTouch, Mac computers, and much much more. They hackers have been targeted “bulletproof” cites, which are sites that are so large that they have almost no chance of ever being shut down. They tell you to make sure that on the browser you see https if you are giving your credit card or pin or something. This tells you that the site is secure. Although they have those precautions there are still ways that hackers can unfortunately get a hold of your information.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Newspaper #3
Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
News Report #3
“Dozens of academic, public and special libraries choose AquaBrowser”September 22, 2008. <http://www.librarytechnology.org/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20080925181396484&RC=13545&code=pr&Row=7>.
The article is basically a press release that came from Denver, Colorado about the decision for twenty five brand new academic schools, public schools, and special libraries new purchase. They all decided to purchase the AquaBrowser. This adds them to the list of over four hundred other libraries that have implemented AquaBrowser. The libraries that have implemented the tool AquaBrowser range from the east coast all the way to the west coast. Some of the schools that you may have heard of are Central Michigan University, and even Washington University. In relating to Wilmington they have added AquaBrowser to the military base, the US Army Fort Bragg Library.
AquaBrowser is innovative conception stage that offers visual, particular searching that helps you to connect with ease to any tool to help you conduct your research, and/or helps to begin the process with any automation system. AquaBrowser is supposed to provide libraries with one of a kind benefits and faster implementation to libraries. Because of its amazing technology and the advancements that it has produced for libraries all over the world they have remained strong with their decision to maintain AquaBrowser as their main vendor-neutral, They have also decided to present the opportunity for their users a spectacular rewarding search experience. Since AquaBrowser has graciously proven a discovery platform with a phenomenal design that is user friendly based on their user research. They have made AquaBrowser so user friendly that it works with any ILS. Libraries can also add AquaBrowser with their current browser and then slowly or at their own pace choose a new ILS system, including any source that happens to be open.
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
News Report #3
“Dozens of academic, public and special libraries choose AquaBrowser”September 22, 2008. <http://www.librarytechnology.org/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20080925181396484&RC=13545&code=pr&Row=7>.
The article is basically a press release that came from Denver, Colorado about the decision for twenty five brand new academic schools, public schools, and special libraries new purchase. They all decided to purchase the AquaBrowser. This adds them to the list of over four hundred other libraries that have implemented AquaBrowser. The libraries that have implemented the tool AquaBrowser range from the east coast all the way to the west coast. Some of the schools that you may have heard of are Central Michigan University, and even Washington University. In relating to Wilmington they have added AquaBrowser to the military base, the US Army Fort Bragg Library.
AquaBrowser is innovative conception stage that offers visual, particular searching that helps you to connect with ease to any tool to help you conduct your research, and/or helps to begin the process with any automation system. AquaBrowser is supposed to provide libraries with one of a kind benefits and faster implementation to libraries. Because of its amazing technology and the advancements that it has produced for libraries all over the world they have remained strong with their decision to maintain AquaBrowser as their main vendor-neutral, They have also decided to present the opportunity for their users a spectacular rewarding search experience. Since AquaBrowser has graciously proven a discovery platform with a phenomenal design that is user friendly based on their user research. They have made AquaBrowser so user friendly that it works with any ILS. Libraries can also add AquaBrowser with their current browser and then slowly or at their own pace choose a new ILS system, including any source that happens to be open.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
News Report #2
Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Assignment #2- News Report
“Technology Keeps Libraries Popular-Internet Access and Books on CD are Hot Commodities” By Elida S. Perez. August 23, 2008. <http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080823/NEWS/808230349/1001>
This article is about how since the Internet is becoming more and more prevalent in people’s lives that libraries are surprisingly not taking a beating. I personally didn’t even think about this. They say that most people thought the Internet would make libraries like the “Beta video and eight track tapes.” Gannet News Service however has found data that suggests that this is completely not the case. Many area libraries are in fact, are seeing an increase in the amount of people circulating books and the amount of visitors who are coming to programs that they heard about online. It has also helped more attendance for community-centered events because through the internet they were about to know about them better.
Not only is the public finding the Internet to be helpful but the library officials and workers have found today’s new technology very helpful in doing things such as helping patrons find information. People are saying that the most helpful thing that technology has done for the library was turning paper catalog’s into online catalogs. I personally would most definitely have to agree. I swear I ended up either giving up on finding books I wanted when it was paper or having to bug a librarian to help me; and god forbid if they weren’t available right about I’d for sure just give up. Luckily at an early age they were converting to library catalog’s online. In addition to the library catalogs online many people have reported coming to the library because of the large increase of DVD and CD collections that the library has obtained. Overall technology has not technically been detrimental to libraries but has actually aided in the use of libraries.
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Assignment #2- News Report
“Technology Keeps Libraries Popular-Internet Access and Books on CD are Hot Commodities” By Elida S. Perez. August 23, 2008. <http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080823/NEWS/808230349/1001>
This article is about how since the Internet is becoming more and more prevalent in people’s lives that libraries are surprisingly not taking a beating. I personally didn’t even think about this. They say that most people thought the Internet would make libraries like the “Beta video and eight track tapes.” Gannet News Service however has found data that suggests that this is completely not the case. Many area libraries are in fact, are seeing an increase in the amount of people circulating books and the amount of visitors who are coming to programs that they heard about online. It has also helped more attendance for community-centered events because through the internet they were about to know about them better.
Not only is the public finding the Internet to be helpful but the library officials and workers have found today’s new technology very helpful in doing things such as helping patrons find information. People are saying that the most helpful thing that technology has done for the library was turning paper catalog’s into online catalogs. I personally would most definitely have to agree. I swear I ended up either giving up on finding books I wanted when it was paper or having to bug a librarian to help me; and god forbid if they weren’t available right about I’d for sure just give up. Luckily at an early age they were converting to library catalog’s online. In addition to the library catalogs online many people have reported coming to the library because of the large increase of DVD and CD collections that the library has obtained. Overall technology has not technically been detrimental to libraries but has actually aided in the use of libraries.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Reading Responce #2
Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Reading #2
Foster, Andrea L. “Information Navigation 101” Chronicles of Higher Education Vol. 53. Issue 27(2007): pA 38-A40.
This article informed me about how college students use the Internet for their academic purposes. Although in today’s society almost all college students use the Internet many of them are not aware of how to use sources that are academically appropriate, good sources, and are good sources for their research. With that fact being known many some students papers, research, and/or arguments for class aren’t the best quality they could be. I personally didn’t know at first that Wikipedia was a HORRIBLE source. Maybe horrible is the wrong word but it isn’t very accurate because any person can go in an edit the source and it can be saved.
They also talk about how they plan to have new programs to teach undergraduates how to use extremely necessary programs such as the online card catalog, and even less complex things such as the Internet. The Internet is although more complex then we all thought. Actually deciphering what is good information can be challenging. In the article they talk about how most college students are using technology on a very constant basis socially and recreationally the amount of technology used for academics is at a startling lesser number. Sending text messages to friends, updating your MySpace, being completely up to date on all your friends through Facebook, or even making a playlist for your iPod is using technology. Most college students are able to do all of those tasks almost without thinking. Sadly they are able to complete those tasks efficiently but when it comes to getting research for their school project students are relying on Google, and Wikipedia which I earlier mentioned are not very adequate sources.
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Reading #2
Foster, Andrea L. “Information Navigation 101” Chronicles of Higher Education Vol. 53. Issue 27(2007): pA 38-A40.
This article informed me about how college students use the Internet for their academic purposes. Although in today’s society almost all college students use the Internet many of them are not aware of how to use sources that are academically appropriate, good sources, and are good sources for their research. With that fact being known many some students papers, research, and/or arguments for class aren’t the best quality they could be. I personally didn’t know at first that Wikipedia was a HORRIBLE source. Maybe horrible is the wrong word but it isn’t very accurate because any person can go in an edit the source and it can be saved.
They also talk about how they plan to have new programs to teach undergraduates how to use extremely necessary programs such as the online card catalog, and even less complex things such as the Internet. The Internet is although more complex then we all thought. Actually deciphering what is good information can be challenging. In the article they talk about how most college students are using technology on a very constant basis socially and recreationally the amount of technology used for academics is at a startling lesser number. Sending text messages to friends, updating your MySpace, being completely up to date on all your friends through Facebook, or even making a playlist for your iPod is using technology. Most college students are able to do all of those tasks almost without thinking. Sadly they are able to complete those tasks efficiently but when it comes to getting research for their school project students are relying on Google, and Wikipedia which I earlier mentioned are not very adequate sources.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Reading Responce #1
Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Throughout the years there have been many sources of information that has been passed down through careful preservation, voice, and books. Libraries are now a huge part in helping keeping history intact. In the reading we learned that Leonardo da Vinci died in 1519, but before that was able to comprise one of the world’s largest collections of well over 5,000 drawings, paintings, and sketching that the libraries of today have been able to retrieve and make available to the public. Most people think the library is full of librarians who just show you were the books are. Many librarians are also in charge of preserving history, and making sure that it is accessible to the public.
When libraries were first opened there was not a sufficient among of information, you were using made to pay to view it, and it was for mainly only show to the upper class who could afford it. Libraries now all around the USA are free and even provide internet access which to some is a godsend…all for free.
But something that was very talked about in this article and that is greatly affected how we view our information, and use technology is, “Communication Systems are Continually Changing the way People Access Information.” It started with the invention of the telegraph in 1844 to the Podcasting in 2004 that we have already greatly surpassed in the current 2008. I would say a great 2008 achievement would be the iPhone.
The majority of the article “The Future of Libraries: Beginning the Transformation,” gave me many insightful information about how great libraries are and how they came from little to nothing and have made leaps and bounds to come to where they are today. I feel that libraries will be around for hopefully the time my kids are born. I have many wonderful memories running around the library getting the “suggested” summer reading and trying to finish the whole list by the end of the summer. I only wish that as the talked about trends continue to happen the trend of continuing to like to read is just as prevalent.
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Reading Responce #1
When libraries were first opened there was not a sufficient among of information, you were using made to pay to view it, and it was for mainly only show to the upper class who could afford it. Libraries now all around the USA are free and even provide internet access which to some is a godsend…all for free.
But something that was very talked about in this article and that is greatly affected how we view our information, and use technology is, “Communication Systems are Continually Changing the way People Access Information.” It started with the invention of the telegraph in 1844 to the Podcasting in 2004 that we have already greatly surpassed in the current 2008. I would say a great 2008 achievement would be the iPhone.
The majority of the article “The Future of Libraries: Beginning the Transformation,” gave me many insightful information about how great libraries are and how they came from little to nothing and have made leaps and bounds to come to where they are today. I feel that libraries will be around for hopefully the time my kids are born. I have many wonderful memories running around the library getting the “suggested” summer reading and trying to finish the whole list by the end of the summer. I only wish that as the talked about trends continue to happen the trend of continuing to like to read is just as prevalent.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Assingment #1- News Report
Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Assignment #1: News Report
“JCLC Steering Committee Pushing Ahead to 2012” By Marcellus Turner. August 5th, 2008. <http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2008/august2008/JCLC2012.cfm>
Recently during the 2008 ALA Midwinter Meetings in Philadelphia several of the committee’s had responsibilities defined, and each individual committee nominated a major conference committee. Since there was such a commitment and every committee and some organizations seemed to really be involved and concerned Presidents of the five Caucuses proceeded to sign the JCLC Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). In addition to graciously signing the MOU that the committee’s and organizations had been working so hard to get signed they also contributed their promised financial deposits for money to help planning seed money for future conferences. A Memorandum of Understand or MOU is basically when a document describing a bilateral or multilateral agreement between two different groups or parties. In this case it was different committees.
The committee that is promoting the JCLC2012 (what the meeting was held about) has ever so graciously but together two members to represent them from two of the ALA-affiliated associations of the librarians of color. The First Joint Conference of the Librarians of Color was in October of 2006 and was held in Dallas, Texas. At their first conference of Librarians of Color they felt that it was only appropriate to have the theme of this meeting be “Gathering at the Waters: Embracing the Spirits, Telling our Stories.” This conference offered more than 100 programs and poster sessions for all of the Librarians who were lucky enough to attend this conference. Some of the topics that they touched upon were minority recruitment, early and adult literacy, collection development, and delivery of service to communities of color were just some of the many topics that were touched upon.
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Assignment #1: News Report
“JCLC Steering Committee Pushing Ahead to 2012” By Marcellus Turner. August 5th, 2008. <http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2008/august2008/JCLC2012.cfm>
Recently during the 2008 ALA Midwinter Meetings in Philadelphia several of the committee’s had responsibilities defined, and each individual committee nominated a major conference committee. Since there was such a commitment and every committee and some organizations seemed to really be involved and concerned Presidents of the five Caucuses proceeded to sign the JCLC Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). In addition to graciously signing the MOU that the committee’s and organizations had been working so hard to get signed they also contributed their promised financial deposits for money to help planning seed money for future conferences. A Memorandum of Understand or MOU is basically when a document describing a bilateral or multilateral agreement between two different groups or parties. In this case it was different committees.
The committee that is promoting the JCLC2012 (what the meeting was held about) has ever so graciously but together two members to represent them from two of the ALA-affiliated associations of the librarians of color. The First Joint Conference of the Librarians of Color was in October of 2006 and was held in Dallas, Texas. At their first conference of Librarians of Color they felt that it was only appropriate to have the theme of this meeting be “Gathering at the Waters: Embracing the Spirits, Telling our Stories.” This conference offered more than 100 programs and poster sessions for all of the Librarians who were lucky enough to attend this conference. Some of the topics that they touched upon were minority recruitment, early and adult literacy, collection development, and delivery of service to communities of color were just some of the many topics that were touched upon.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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