1) Local Area Network: I finally learned what LAN and WAN stands for. They have been in previous readings, and I always wondered, but now know about Local and Wide Area Networks. I also know that Ethernet has nothing to do with a clear odorless liquid; but still don't know exactly how it works. But I love having Wi-Fi at work and now in our home. I'll talk more about that later.
While at college, my husband and I went to Novell and participated in a computer study; and we even got paid for it. One could get dizzy clicking on all the blue hyperlinks on these articles, or just more confused with all the terminology.
2)Computer Network: A computer network is a group of interconnected computers. There are several Types of Networks. Those initials are easy to understand and remember. (especially after watching the YouTube video.) It was helpful for them to go in order of size: Personal, Local, Campus, Metropolitan, Wide, and Global Network. A question arises as to who pays for all this networking? When transmitted by telephone, or wireless to reach the Global sphere, how is it determined who is accessing it and who pays? Who is monitoring all those nets? How about laptops accessing Wi-Fi from wherever?
3)Common Types of Networks; YouTube: I guess anyone can star in a movie.
4)Management of RFID in Libraries: This was actually for first time I'd ever read anything about RFID. I somehow saw something on YouTube in another language so I'm guessing that this is what it was about. After reading the article about scanning a whole shelf of books so quickly, I was astonished! The security factor is something I would love to implement in our library. There are so many books that mysteriously "walk" out of the building. I can see only advantages to using a Radio Wave IDentifier on all materials at our library. a) Check out and check in would be so much faster. b) When other libraries call us and ask us to send them a book, we go to the shelves and look. If it is a row down, or up, or at the wrong end of the shelf, the scanner could catch it and c) it would save wear and tear on my knees every week checking the shelves for overdues. If equipped with this feature; d) The 'pages' (usually teenagers who put the books back on the shelves after being returned) could almost check themselves to see if the books were reshelved correctly.
How do I sign up? I would love to see this utilized in my library!
Muddiest Point: In this week's readings the Internet and the WWW were mentioned together. Are they the same thing? What is the difference between them?
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Hi Joan!
I agree that the RFID sounds great, but as I thought through it again,picturing it in my library, I started to doubt it...on a grand scale. We have self-checkout now and 1 out of 5 times, the circulation team needs to trouble shoot for the patron. Parents taking out 10 picture books would be stuck having to scan them differently than the 1 NYTimes bestseller that they had in their hands for themselves. Are there error codes for when they are not working properly and if one gets damaged completely,the book could walk away without anyone knowing. I think that like self-checkout there are too many variables out there to jump on board. I agree wiht you though,that the search and security issues that would be addressed would be a tremendous help. RFID = a double-edged sword.
Hi there, The WWW is a part of the internet. It is not the internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
People often confuse the two.
Hi Joan,
RFID would be a good thing for Libraries. We have well-meaning users who attempt to shelve items they take off the shelves, but usually haven't a clue how to properly but it back. This means the item ends up in the wrong department, not to mention the wrong shelves in different branches. One can see RFID used to locate and recover said items without a lot of fuss. As with any benefit to human kind the good is packaged with the dangers. Have we learned little from the Pandora fable?
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