Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work
This is a decent little overview of some of the work that has been done in recent times to connect libraries with the digital world. There did not seem to be much content to it, though, and it seemed almost thrown together. I think a good bulleted list would have been more helpful.
Dewey Meets Turing
This article helped me to be aware of the challenges involved in combining people in the library field with those in the computer field. It also gave an idea of the attitudes of those involved in the process. I hope that librarians and computer scientists will continue to work together in the future, and I especially hope that they continue to improve HOW they work together. I am not quite so sure why, but it seems that working together for the two has been far more complicated and inefficient than necessary.
Institutional Repositories
This article was informative, but also very dense. Like the first article, but for different reasons, I wish this had been presented in a structured list or something similar, rather than as a long article. But regardless, the article does give a good overview of what an institutional repository is, how it functions, and where they are going in the future.
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I agree that lists would have been nice. I also agree that there seems to be an unnecessary tension between librarians and computer scientists. I have thought about when the subject is brought up in one of our classes, and the only conclusion that I can come up with, is that librarians are afraid that computer scientists might be stepping on their toes. I come to this conclusion after reading several of the posts put on my lis 2000 group db. It was mentioned several times by several people that technology is going to take over the library and make it obsolete. People have attempted to explain this to me, but for the life of me, I do no understand how people actually think that it is possible or a even a logical assumption. More over, why are they in LIS classes if they think this????
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