Note: I am thus far unable to access J Vaughn's article "Lied Library." I attempted to purchase the article and the connection kept timing out and saying the server was unavailable.
I am afraid I will be charged more money for my attempts to view the article, as I had to click the purchase button a few times.
Honestly, I am not trying to get out of work or be a nuisance on my first assignment!
Personally, I find $23 to be an exorbitant amount of money to gain access to an article. Is there a more economical way to be able to read this?
--This applies directly to the other readings. I find myself not willing to pay 0.25 for a sentence. I would be willing to buy the book, with a chance I could re-sell it. But if I buy the rights to simply view the article online, I have no way to make some of my money back.
I find this unfair to the students, who collectively pay far more money for the article (each of us paying $23) than a class would pay normally for an article to be placed on reserve at library.
Also, I am troubled by the erosion of privacy. I have given emerald my personal information now, and many other websites. If I was able to walk into a library, I would need to give the information only once, and there in the library it would be contained.
It seems like the outflow of information is no longer able to be checked by traditional means of "binding" information. Authors are able to bypass the competitive world of book and article publishing, and publish themselves on the internet, at minimal costs ( and at potentially great monetary gains ).
Theoretically, all this new information is also available to a much larger audience, as more and more people have internet access, and internet access all the time with the help of wireless internet and portable internet devices.
Librarians need to adapt to information outside the notion of books--to appeal to the container agnostics: increasingly tech-savvy and discriminating information consumers.
"Search, Find, Obtain": libraries need to play into the new methods consumers use to access and find information.
1964: Marshall McLuhan: "The medium is the message." This quote makes more sense to me after reading Clifford Lynch's essay "information Literacy"
--It is important to be able to read and understand information, and also important to be able to see the world which made this information, and information delivery possible.
--Mark Federman explains it as: "change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs."
E-info: content delivered at little seeming cost straight to consumer
Disruptive technology: new communication channels offering alternatives to established ways of obtaining content
Payload emails make ILL seem tiny: Libraries do not track their payload emails
Downsized Cost:
--micropayment for micro-content is increasingly common.
--without the old physical form--one is paying for seemingly pure info, or for the privilege of reading someone's info
--there is demand for micro-content and a willingness to pay for the convenience of having it delivered
Blogs: way for libraries to reach out, and to hear from consumers?
--more and more people are reading blogs for their fresh perspective, ease and convenience.
--Libraries could use this as way to begin to rate information and keep people updated on what is new in the informational world.
Projections show that print materials will still rise in production--though not nearly as fast as online materials
This article suggests that libraries move beyond collecting and organizing and to begin assessing quality of information available
"we are drowning in information and starving for knowledge"
There is a need for conceptual tools acting as unseen librarians directing people to the particle information which will best suit their interests (guide to context)
"Information Literacy and Information Technology Literacy: New Components in the Curriculum for a Digital Culture" Clifford Lynch 2-21-98
IT is to understand technology and its underpinnings in every day life.
---understand tools of technology
---- understanding the policy which shapes its development and dissemination
Information Literacy
--beyond reading, writing, critiquing.
--though it is important to understand information, it is also important to understand its meaning within its structures
----this seems to be a more complete education, to understand the information and the information machine which made it possible, and the depth of the tools we employ to access it
Authoring
--it is not just typing anymore
--a good education teaches deeper knowledge of software and formatting. Lynch believes education is still stuck largely in a 1980s word processing model, cheating students out of the knowledge of how information is truly worked and formatted in the world
Technology and Library Users: LITA experts
---"FutureSpeak: A Preface to Top Technology Trends in Libraries" Tome Wilson
Wilson rejects the implication that predictions mean one can see or control the future.
"The" + "Future" connotes that there is one possible future that will play out
Peter Bishop warns against assumptions in forecasting
--says the best long term forecasts are not necessarily accurate or precise, but are those which are useful.
--these are the most probable, most plausible
--greatest threats to good forecasting is often the forecaster's assumptions
--Technology is but one factor influencing the future
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