Julie Hughes's List: INF429 Assignment 1 Articles

• In all the hype and the current fashion for getting on line and interacting  (the basis of what Web 2.0 is all about really), is there a danger that reality  will be lost? What are some of the implications for this generation and the next  as far as social networking is concerned? Will the future of library employees  be different because of it?

• people are spending their time accessing news, information and entertainment
• We’ve dubbed the winners in this space the ‘quick’ and the ‘connected’. The  ‘quick’ are those that have responded fast to technological advancements and the  ‘connected’ is a reference in two parts. First of all connected by the internet,  connected by technology and broadband and all that it promises, but just as  importantly, connected to each other so that people can create communities
• seeing electronic media take market share points in terms of spending on content
• The way we’ve looked at convergence is that it’s a technological evolution, but  if things are left to people in white coats there really isn’t that much  engagement from the people at larg
• The personalised experience could range from the passive watching the programme  in a broadcast sense, but it allows people to go online and dive down to depths  that they choose to get additional news and information, and then through  providing the forums for discussion we get the social context, the interaction  between p
• In terms of ‘any time’, you can look at the Foxtel IQ personal video recorder or  the whole concept of podcasting, which is listening to what was a live radio  broadcast at your leisure at a later time

• ‘Any place’ is around media server technology which allows you to take a  piece of content and watch it on a handheld device or the TV or the  internet.

   

  The ‘any device’ is expanding at a rate of knots and in the last couple of  years we’ve seen the introduction of mp3 players for music and PlayStation  portable handheld devices which also show films and books and email and the  like
• getting content to people in the one single delivery chain and so that people  can access content through just about any network they want on to any device,  and this has all be facilitated by broadband and internet protocol.
• They have the tools to now choose what they want, when they want and how they  want and
• social networks and by that what we’re talking about is the infrastructure that  allows people who are separated by time and distance to interact with each other  in areas that have mutual interest.
• . The growth is around a personalised one-on-one experience that facilitates  social interaction.
• Google has revolutionalised the concept of sea
• is everyone who has read the book can post their own recommendation
• It also then links to critical issues of privacy and security, and we’re seeing  that become more and more important going forward. It needs robust search  engines because people want to know how to get what they want as quickly as  possible and it really is one of the strengths of Google
• recommendations. The key thing is to play the role of facilitating knowledge  sharing
• haven’t. And there is a role, a similar role, for libraries in terms of knowing  your customer, sorting through the vast amounts of information and making sense  of it and providing recommendations that are meaningful.
• facilitating content, enhancing the content and bringing people together. So  it’s not an environment without its challenges but I think there are some  significant opportunities and it will be interesting to watch how you guys  progress as you go into the 21st century

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• The report makes clear that faculty increasingly access what they need elsewhere  or simply find alternate routes around the library Web site to get to their  desired library e-resources.
• It is debatable that faculty and students ever perceived the library as the  starting point for their research, but these indicators offer convincing  evidence that the library’s web portal, more than ever, can make no such claim  to that title. We may be fortunate when they go there at all. The future of the  library Web site as information portal is bleak. But that’s good news. Libraries  have grown too dependent on their Web sites as gateways to electronic scholarly  content, and have invested too much time trying to fix what is broken.
• The primary function of the contemporary academic library Web site is to connect  a user to content, be it an article database, e-book or e-journal article, and  to do it with minimal barriers and maximum speed and ease
• Faculty and students can access from dozens to hundreds of databases with little  or no idea what they are or how to find them.
• First, how can libraries more effectively create awareness about their content  so users can discover it? Second, what should replace the library portal?
• it suggests the library portal no longer needs to compete to be the one-stop  portal where faculty and their students begin their research. These pioneering  libraries distribute the content across the institution’s network and beyond.  They are putting the links where faculty and students can find them easily. It  changes the library website paradigm from “you must visit our portal” to “we’ll  be where you are.”
• LibGuides is an example of  an increasingly popular guide creator that allows librarians to create a highly  customized research guide for any single course or assignment. Research  conducted by academic librarians made it clear that students preferred  customized course and assignment guides to broad subject guides. Why? It puts  the links they need to complete research assignments right where they need them.  Scavenger hunts through library portals to locate needed databases or e-journals  can become a practice of the past.
• academic librarians fail to grasp the urgency of needed changes to their  portals it is quite possible we will read in a future article something along  the lines of “Academic librarians thought they were in the information gateway  business, but they were really in the learning and scholarly productivity  business. They just didn’t recognize it.”

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• I encourage my students to use different technologies to research, publish,  celebrate and share their learnings,” Michael said
• a transformation has taken place in their expressive language, learning and  their attitudes to education in general,” Michael said.

• "Web 2.0 is about a way of life and if you look at the webspace in terms of  university websites, they are very much a passive environment," she says. It's  not enough to drop information on to a website, however well designed. "Out  there people are saying 'I want to choose where and how I get information'," she  says.

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