Category: technology

[2670] Week 2 Reading Responses

Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on September 6, 2008

Overall themes: interoperability, modularity. A Framework for Building Open Digital Libraries has me totally sold on the ODL concept and on the extension of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI_PMH) to build every future Digital Library ever. I think it’s a great idea; interoperability is a desirable…

On Blackboard and Blogs

Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on August 30, 2008

I’m going to be honest: I don’t love Blackboard (Bb). Certainly, it fills a niche, and I agree that something like it should be used. But I’m just not sure Bb is the be-all, end-all solution for every problem, in every class, in every university. Honestly, course webpages are, in…

First Week of Classes, Complete!

Published by Coral Sheldon-Hess on August 29, 2008

Now that I’ve been to all of my classes once–and work a few times–I have some thoughts to post. First off, let me just say, for the sake of any engineers who come to this blog wanting to find out about switching into Library Science, it is wonderful to know,…