12/1 Muddiest Point

I know that reference librarians have started to use IM to provide reference services but not much about RSS feeds in reference context. I wonder which is better at question-answer turn around?

11/24 Muddiest Point

How much influence did OAI have in decreasing price barriers to implementing digital institutional repositories?

11/17 Muddiest Point

How do limits in scalability affect the Google search engine in retrieving deep web documents?

11/10 Muddiest Point

How many pages use XML vs. DTD?

10/27 Muddiest Point

How many academic libraries use MySQL for their CMS needs?

10/20 Muddiest Points

Why are only numbers 0-255 used for IP addresses?

10/6 Muddiest Point

I wonder how libraries are incorporating youtube and other video networks into their digital collections.

9/29 Muddiest Point

In the "YouTube and Libraries" article, the author states that anything can be uploaded to YouTube. This is not the case, there are image restrictions and videos can be removed due to (perceived) violation of copyright, or..if the video is not made private, by complete strangers who don't necessarily like what is posted.

I wonder if any professors have had a problem with having their videos removed?

9/21 Muddiest Point

Is Google a DBMS or RDBMS? I know that Google is trying to increase scalability, so could it be DBMS since that is one of their priorities?

9/15 Muddiest Points

Class question: would it be easier to type accents with a Dvorak or QWERTY keyboard?

A few questions I had while reading:
What's x86?
Do shared systems really minimize cost? Wouldn't the cost of the program/system be prohibitive to some libraries?

9/8 Muddiest Points

The reading was pretty straightforward, mostly definitions. I have no MPs for this reading.

9/1 Readings Muddiest Points

Content Not Containers
Is there a difference in formatting for different user groups (students/casual users)?
What would the effect of a "system of micropayments" have on intellectual property claims?
Concerning the creation of microcontent ie blogs. What would happen if two people posted similar ideas. How would an intellectual property dispute be resolved?
Do thesis and papers published on blogs get a thorough amount of peer review?

With the trend of e-books. I see a problem of accessability. I think this is highlighted by Amazon's recent removal of 1984 from its e-book list due to copyright issues (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html?_r=2). Who controls access to content? How are legal parameters for online resources established. People lost class notes they were recording on Kindle. Where are the lines for intellectual property drawn?

How will the increase in OA decrease financial strain on libraries?

Lied Library
How were upgrades prioritized? Which projects were put on hold or scrapped?
Instead of banning public patrons laptops, wouldn't allowing personal laptops decrease the traffic for academic users?

Information Literacy
The author says students are underprepared and lack good skills to operate in "an information technology intensive culture." Are there statistics on this, what skills does the author deem necessary?