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Post by golbeck on Apr 21, 2013 18:17:05 GMT -5
Hi, All,
I've posted lecture 10 for you on digital libraries. There is no required discussion, but I suspect many of you will have thoughts on it, so I've started this thread if you would like to discuss.
Jen
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Post by justinthomas on Apr 22, 2013 13:27:14 GMT -5
Brewster Kahle's TEDTalk along with one of our assigned readings for our other class this semester (LBSC650), "Rethinking Resource Sharing" by Anne K. Beaubien and Patricia Stevens, struck a lot of the same chords for me. I really believe libraries need to go more and more into the digital field and that they need to meet patrons where they are (which is increasingly online), not where libraries want them to be (our antiquated and cumbersome ways of doing things, which libraries have been obstinate to change).
I believe we need to put the best (as well as the most) resources of knowledge we can online, and we need to make them readily available (free) and intuitively navigable for all of the people of the world (who have Internet access*). It is like Brewster Kahle's comments laid out: "We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve; they're going to learn from whatever it is they have around them."
*As for those without Internet access, obviously we don't want to leave them out of the equation, either. I think the transportable book kiosk models that can print online books into physical form are something that we should certainly have more of all across the globe. Also, we should have better PR and promotion of the brick and mortar libraries for people who don't have Internet access but are still within a manageable distance of a brick and mortar library.
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Post by emyers on Apr 26, 2013 22:29:52 GMT -5
I was surprised to read that before the International Digital Children's Library was developed, there were not really that many digital library options for children online. Those that were available for children often only contained a few dozen books or only listed titles or information about purchasing the books in question. I suppose this would make sense given that the internet only really started to become ubiquitous in homes in the mid-late 90s, but it seems strange to think about a time when children didn't have as much access to these online reading resources. I'm glad that there are initiatives underway to improve these resources and to encourage children to read through as many mediums as possible.
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Post by Mary Sanphilipo-Ward on Apr 27, 2013 13:15:14 GMT -5
As a genealogist, I have found the Internet Archive to be amazing. I have found things there that I would never have been able to locate otherwise. One thing that wasn't mentioned is that all new books are already digitized so we just have to get the old stuff done.
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Post by aton on May 9, 2013 22:41:58 GMT -5
That's a good point about the old vs new stuff, Mary. The Art of Google Books tumblr is a really cool way to relate with the past.
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