Reading Notes- Week 13, Dec 6, 2010

No Place to Hide website

This website clearly has a lot of material on it, so I just poked around and read a couple of reviews. The website itself is something I'd like to go back to and peruse further when I have more time, and I'd really like to read this book when I get a chance (winter break maybe?). Privacy issues are a major concern nowadays. I remember at the end of high school I said I would never get Facebook just because I was disturbed by the thought of putting that much personal information out there on the web within easy reach of whoever wanted it. But, due to the relentless efforts of friends, I gave in. With all the recent uproar over the new body scans and pat downs at airports across the country, privacy issues are making headlines on a daily basis. Sometimes I feel like reality is turning into some sort of science fiction novel. Any thoughts?

TIA and Data Mining

So there's a long going on on this site too, but long story short... The government has access to way more information than most people probably want them to have access to. I should probably just stop writing now... the government may be reading this blog as I type... (dun dun dun *scary music*). If they're interested though, that's cool. Feel free to leave a nice comment, big brother.

Privacy issues is a pretty big umbrella, so I'm just going to narrow this down a bit... what methods can be taken to ensure the privacy of library patrons? I'm sure some of you who have worked in libraries and archives before have dealt with this. What can libraries do to protect their patrons' personal information? What types of information needs protecting?

Youtube video

When I clicked the link for the Youtube video, I got this message "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom International Inc." Anyone else face the same problem?

Week 12 Comments

Here are my comments for week 12, November 29th.

http://att16.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-12-social-software.html?showComment=1290522760847#c2701905369596225051

http://kel2600.blogspot.com/2010/11/reading-notes-november-22-2010.html?showComment=1290522546144#c2134633679180877974

Muddiest Point for November 22nd class

I have no muddiest point this week.

Reading Notes- Week 12, Nov 29, 2010

Weblogs: their use and application in science and technology libraries

It was very interesting to read about the development of blogs. I had never thought of their evolution before. Blogs are a great way to share information because as the article said, it's a "bottom up" form of communication. So this allows anyone to start a blog and start sharing their ideas with the rest of the internet. I had also never thought of using blogs in the library setting to communicate with coworkers and such. This article focused on science and technology libraries. But what about other libraries? Does anyone think that blogs would be used any differently in say, a university library, or a public library?

Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons

Like the first article, I found the use of communication technology in this article interesting. The librarians were using wikis to collaborate on course content. I have never used a wiki, but taking into consideration all the praise they get nowadays, I'm assuming I will sometime in the future. I actually really want to use on. I think it might make group projects easier. Or at least sharing information about what each person is working on easier. It would cut back on the constant flooding of everyone in the group's inbox with project updates. Has anyone used a wiki before? Did you love it/hate it?

Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution

I think tagging in libraries sounds really cool. Sometimes you know that the information you want is out there, but you are just thinking of it in a different way than how it was cataloged. What do you think of opening up tagging to library users? Would it help in this manner? Or would it just put too much information out there?

How a ragtag band created Wikipedia

I think that Wikipedia has really transformed the way people think about information, both where to find it, and their role in creating and editing it. It allows people to have a much more participatory role in information.I think what really impresses me about Wikipedia is that people are so willing to spend their free time creating content. They're not getting paid, but they see benefits in what they're doing. I think that libraries could make a wikipedia type thing for their users. Like you could have pages about how to use different databases (some are sort of finicky, so it could be a place where you could add advice on how to adjust search terms for instance), how to find certain things in the library, etc. What do you think?

Assignment 6- My Website- Due Dec 6, 2010

Hi all,

Here is my website!! Feel free to check it out. If you notice any problems or anything not working, please let me know. I would appreciate it!

http://www.pitt.edu/~cmf68/

Week 11 Comments

Here are my comments for Nov 22nd.

http://jobeths2600blog.blogspot.com/2010/11/unit-11.html?showComment=1289873272994#c3646130006955890561

http://acovel.blogspot.com/2010/11/unit-11-reading-notes.html?showComment=1289873119013#c5823521273240565772

Muddiest Point for November 15th class

I have no muddiest point this week.