9/1 Reading Notes

OCLC 2004 Information Format Trends Content, Not Container


Content Management:
Increased access due to fluidity of mobile sources (laptops, phones) and lack of format-dependence. Changes who and how content is created and utilized.

Shifts in publication. Trend toward e-publication creating a more proactive consumer group (ex. medical faculty self-publishing online instead of peer reviewed hard copy journals).

Determining ownership (intellectual property) trend shifting to individual creation of micro-content. Shift to consumers determining what content they get.

Determining authenticity in a fluid , online enviroment.

Shift toward "social publishing"-content created to foster a sense of community. Increase of blogs as factual evidence, less biased sources of news (pg. 7)

Influence on academics and academic libraries:
ARL libraries spending an increasing amount on e-aquisitions, the creation and maintenance of digital resources/databases (ie digital assets).

Lied Library @ Four Years: Technology Never Stands Still
Focus on resource management and accessabilty in an academic library
Questions of userabilty and efficiency for patrons (minimizing impact of installation schedule to make sure library resources and computers were available for patrons while performing upgrades). Facilitating data migration from old PCs to new.

Combining databases (student info system/library card system) to streamline records management.

Major issue:
Computer access and restriction: managing a "finite resource"
Lied-laptop check out, increase hotjacks, installing more fixed PCs. Restricting use of laptops to UNLV staff and students, restricting use to UNLV for high traffic, high need times (one assumes, mid-terms and finals).
Computer function maintained by Deepfreeze

Major issue:
Space management and utilization
Lied issue: growth of library systems staff, workspace needed, airconditioning problems in central computer room.

Major issue:
Security (preventing theft), malicious software and adware
Solutions-Deepfreeze, Packeter PacketShaper, Ad-Adware
Equipment malfunction (batteries expiring earlier than usual due to temperature.

Information Literacy and Information Technology Literacy
Major issues:
Technology education on par with technological growth. Educating patrons on tool use but also on how tech and info systems work.