tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49867908516302454922024-03-18T21:28:04.022-07:00Ben's Libraries & Tablets BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09344915052569338856noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986790851630245492.post-44800044384296962452013-04-29T22:58:00.001-07:002013-04-29T22:58:16.862-07:00Reading on iPads: A distraction in the classroom?There's an interesting study out of Australia that analyzed the affects of reading on iPads on student reading comprehension. I was particularly interested in this study for two reasons: first, because this is after all a blog about tablets, and second, because the study was conducted with sixth-graders and I once was a sixth-grade reading teacher. Therefore, I definitely could empathize with the teachers and students in the study who were struggling to implement the use of iPads in the classroom.<br />
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The basic set-up of the study was comprised of two sets of students--one control group reading traditional textbooks, and another experimental group reading epubs on iPads. The experiment was conducted soon after the release of the first iPad, so one should take that fact into consideration of the validity of the study, as Apple has improved upon the original iPad and the overall textbook epub reading experience since then. The control group and experimental group were subdivided by students' reading ability, so that each group had a Low, Middle, and High group as well. The students read <i>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</i> by Mark Twain among other readings.<br />
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The study ultimately found that further study would be required to make a definitive statement about whether iPads significantly impact student reading. However, the study found that the experimental group (the ipad group) performed worse than the control group (the textbook group) on standardized reading comprehension group. In particular, the Low experimental group performed the poorest of all. The researches proposed that the iPads, while exciting and shiny-new, presented a distraction to students which negatively affected students' reading comprehension.<br />
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I would like to see the same experiment conducted using the latest iPads today to see if there is a difference in the result, given the improvements that Apple has made in the two years since the study came out. I think that there might be a slight improvement in the experimental group's test scores because iPads aren't the novel gadgets that they once were. In other words, teachers and students alike have more experience using iPads nowadays, so the teachers and students might not be as distracted and/or intimidated by the technology as they once were. I wouldn't be surprised however--as someone who often gets distracted while reading a book on my tablet--if the textbook group outperformed the iPad group a second time around.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sheppard, D. (2011). Reading with iPads—the difference makes a difference. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Education Today, 13</em>(1), 12-15. Retrieved from:</span><a href="http://www.minnisjournals.com.au/articles/ipads%20et%20t3%2011.pdf" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.minnisjournals.com.au/articles/ipads%20et%20t3%2011.pdf" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.minnisjournals.com.au/articles/ipads%20et%20t3%2011.pdf</a><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09344915052569338856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986790851630245492.post-36033959621534170872013-04-29T22:14:00.001-07:002013-04-29T22:14:20.881-07:00Starting up a library iPad program: Success and Failure<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I started this blog, I mentioned some of my personal frustration with getting a library iPad program off the ground. So, in search of some advice I stumbled across <a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/4/212.full">this excellent article</a> from the Association of Colleges & Research Libraries on setting up just such a program at Briar Cliff University with some helpful guidelines for success. It would have been nice if I'd read this case study before I proposed my own program last year. More on that in a moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are considering creating a library iPad program I would highly recommend you read the article in full, but here are some highlights/tips:</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #403838; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apple has introduced an App Volume Purchase Program to facilitate app purchasing for institutions. Use this program to set up your apps across multiple devices and to maintain your backups.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #403838; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Restrict the iTunes settings of the iPads so that borrows cannot purchase apps, since these apps will just be wiped upon return.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #403838; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When the iPads are returned use the "Erase all content and settings" feature to wipe data clean.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #403838; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">BCU instituted a $15 an hour late fee and $700 loss replacement fee with a loan period of 4 hours at first, which was later switched to 2 days for undergraduates.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #403838;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #403838; line-height: 19px;">Provide patrons with an easy way to suggest apps and set a maximum price that the library will pay for an app or a maximum total for all apps" (Thompson, 2011).</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #403838;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">The article also included some great some detailed logistical advice and a robust list of app recommendations. While this information certainly would have aided me in my attempt to create a library iPad program, it would not have helped me to overcome the biggest obstacle that I faced: liability concerns.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #403838; line-height: 19px;">In short, and without getting into the particular details, the reason my library iPad program never got off the ground was because I eventually found out that students would not be able to take the iPads off-campus due to university policy regarding equipment liability. And after conducting a series of formal and informal surveys, there simply was not enough demand for a iPad loan program that did not allow students to take the iPads out of the building with them. It's an unfortunate situation, but I have still managed to get some use out of our iPads by using them to conduct other library surveys about library services and student needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thompson, S. (2011). Setting up a library iPad program: guidelines for success. C&RL News, 72(4). Retrieved from<span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/4/212.full" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/4/212.full" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/4/212.full</a></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09344915052569338856noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986790851630245492.post-26581953382135803512013-04-29T14:11:00.002-07:002013-04-29T14:25:16.793-07:00Tablets for the uninitiated--A PowerPoint Tutorial<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Introduction</b></span></div>
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learn how to use it?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Are you thinking about buying a tablet,
but haven’t made the leap yet?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Did your kids buy a tablet for you and
you haven’t taken it out of the box yet?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">This guide will walk you through the
basics of tablet computing and familiarize you with some of the best ways to
enjoy your tablet.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Designed with all tablets in mind</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Android and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">iOS</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">
friendly</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Advantages of using a tablet</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">The home </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">s</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">creen</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Connecting to the Internet</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Apps and app </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">s</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">tores</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Web </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">b</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">rowsing</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Using e-mail</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Reading and downloading e-books</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Streaming </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">v</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">ideo</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Portability—easy to use on the go, or
lounging on the couch. Not as cumbersome as a laptop and typically has a longer
battery life.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Ease of use—once you learn the basics,
tablets are very user- friendly</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Great for book lovers—Instead of lugging
around a stack of books for a long weekend at the beach, bring your tablet and
enjoy having thousands of books at your fingertips.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Great for browsing the internet and
reading the news.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Can be good for people with poor eyesight
because you are able to enlarge text to meet your reading needs.</span></li>
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tablets today: Android, developed by Google, and </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">iOS</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">, developed by Apple.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">If you have an </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Ipad</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;"> or </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Ipad</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;"> mini
you will be using the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">iOS</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">
platform.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">If you have any other tablet—e.g. Kindle,
Nook, Nexus, or Galaxy, to name a few popular brands– then you will be using
the Android platform.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">We will go over the basics of both
operating systems together, so don’t worry if you don’t know which specific
version of Android or </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">iOS</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;"> you
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">T</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">apping on an icon, the small square or
circle shaped objects on the screen, will open various apps for use.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">You can organize your home screen by
long-pressing on an icon (holding your finger down for more than one second)
and dragging the icon to your desired location.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Unlike the programs that you double-click
on to open on your home computer, you can access apps with the tap of your
finger on your tablet.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">You can group related apps together by
long-pressing on apps and dragging an icon on top of another icon. </span></li>
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tablet, but you will want to install more apps from the app store.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;">Don’t let the word ‘store’ intimidate
you. Many of the best apps are absolutely free, however, you will need to set
up your account with a credit card the first time using the app store.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;">Some users purchase many apps, others
none whatsoever, so it’s really up to your preference.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;">If you are not using an </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;">iPad</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;"> the
app store might go by a slightly different name so look for an icon called
“Amazon Apps” or “Google Play” or “Samsung Apps” depending on your tablet. Tap
on the icon to open the app store.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">When you first turned on your tablet you
were probably prompted to link your email address to your device. (If not, go
to Settings>Mail>Add Account>select your email provider and enter your
email address).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">To check your email find the “Mail” or
“Gmail” app and open it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">From there you can read your emails and
compose and send emails using your on-screen keyboard.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Some users like the feel of a tactile
keyboard so if you enjoy writing emails on your tablet, then you might want to
invest in a Bluetooth keyboard to write longer emails.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">There are many different ways to read
e-books on your tablet.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">The most commonly used e-book reader apps
are Kindle, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">iBooks</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">
(Apple only), Nook, and Google’s ‘Play Books’ app (see icons left to right
above). You will need to install these apps first in order to use them.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Once you’ve installed the app, you can
purchase books from the store--look for the store button within the app--and
download them to read.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">There are thousands of older books that
are free to download because they are in the public domain and no longer under
copyright protection. Now is the perfect time to download a copy of </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0in;">War
and Peace</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;"> or </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0in;">Moby
Dick</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">and
you won’t have thumb through a heavy book to read them! Change the font, resize
the text, the options are many.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Another feature for book lovers is that
you can download a book sample, usually the first 2 chapters of a book, and
begin reading the book. If you like it, you can buy it to continue reading.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">To watch videos on your device you can
install apps such as YouTube, Netflix, and </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Hulu</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">These apps are free to install but
Netflix and </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Hulu</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">+
require an account use.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Movies can be rented or purchased as well
via the iTunes store or various App stores.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;">I hope that you feel a bit more
comfortable now with using a tablet and doing some basic tasks.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;">I hope you learned something new and that
these basic skills will enhance your tablet using experience.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;">If you’ve just purchased a new </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;">iPad</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;">, you
may be eligible for a free 1 hour workshop at your local Apple genius bar as
well: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;"><a href="https://www.apple.com/retail/learn/">https://www.apple.com/retail/learn/</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: 0in;">For further information please don’t
hesitate to ask your friendly librarian to assist you in locating resource
materials and finding other help sessions.</span></li>
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I read an interesting Guardian article recently entitled <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/mar/26/ebooks-different-genre-print?INTCMP=SRCH">"Why ebooks are a different genre from print"</a> that got me thinking about the question of whether ebooks and tablets are changing the way we read. And if they are, is that a good thing? The article identified two key ways that ebooks change the reader's relationship with the text:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">With the book, the reader's relationship to the text is private, and the book is continuous over space, time and reader. Neither of these propositions is necessarily the case with the ebook.</span></blockquote>
Contra to the good old fashioned codex, the reader's relationship to the text is increasingly less private as more and more information about our reading habits is collected and tracked by various interested parties: makers of e-book apps, tablets, and publishing companies. So for example, if a publisher or author learns that a third of readers who purchased a book failed to finish chapter three, then they could make future decisions reflecting that knowledge. Unfortunately, there isn't much data available about what publishers are doing with this data just yet. But this is truly uncharted territory and it will be interesting to see what readers and publishers do with this new information. I worry that one day soon an author, informed with information that a large percentage of readers did not finish a difficult chapter, might change the way they write to accommodate shorter attention spans. But then again, this new information might help authors and publishers produce better quality books. It's difficult to say at this point.<br />
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Another thing to think about is how our relationship to the text is changing when we read a book in ebook format. Consider how, when reading a Kindle book, you can turn on a feature that allows you to view the most highlighted passages by other users. When I first used this feature I was amazed that I could find out whether other people highlighted the same passages that I did; it also had the negative affect of making me a bit self-conscious when I learned that passages I loved were not loved by other readers. Upon some future reflection, I also wondered if this "crowdsourced" feature could create a sort of group-think opinion about a book, where people might assign an undue amount of significance to a passage simply because other people highlighted it.<br />
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So to return to the initial question, I think there is some budding evidence, albeit largely untested and anecdotal at this point, that ebooks and tablets <i>are </i>changing the way we read. We know that the solitary act of reading is no longer quite as solitary as it once was now that companies can track the reading habits of ebook readers. And we know that we can find instant opinion about the most highlighted passages in any given book on our Kindles or using the Kindle app. I think it would be unwise, however, at this early stage to say that they are changing things for the better or worse.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Maybe you've seen the "Medieval Helpdesk" sketch from Norway about a monk struggling to use a book. Check it out first if you haven't:</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Funny as it as, historians of librarianship know that the monk in the comedy sketch would have been using books for a millienium, as the codex was introduced in the 1st century CE. Here's a more accurate chronology of LIS Technology for your reading pleasure.</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">How did we get here?</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">What follows is an exploration of the
history of technology in the field of Library and Information Science. The
primary question guiding this research was “how did we get from point A to
point B?”, with point B representing our technologically rich present in which
most Americans have access to, in the words of David Foster Wallace, “a tsunami
of available fact, context, and perspective that constitutes Total Noise”—our
abundance of information (2007).</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">As with any chronology, each milestone
chosen was a deliberate decision—an interpretative act, as it were—about the
most important events in shaping LIS technology. Therefore, since no chronology
can be truly comprehensive, my task is to persuasively demonstrate why each
chosen event bears careful consideration. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">How
do we define Technology?</span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Thanks to the dawn of computing and the
digital age, today we often conceive of technology in terms of electronic or
digital products in the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">marketplace.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">However</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">, There is older definition, used
particularly among anthropologists, that might better suit our </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">purposes.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">This </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">broader definition of technology is: “The
body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning
implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting
materials” (2002).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><b>Where to begin?</b></span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">With this broader definition of
technology in mind, one must consider, what is referred to in the field of
History as the problem of periodization. In other words, when does the history
of LIS Technology begin in earnest?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Even if we are narrowly interested in the
development of today’s LIS computers, I argue that we must begin with one of
the earliest forms of information storage media: the papyrus scroll.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Papyrus Scroll (3rd millenium BCE)</span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">The papyrus scroll was invented by the
Egyptians as a way to record, retrieve, and preserve written </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">documents
(Burke, 2009</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Scrolls were </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">a</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">
notable improvement over the stone and clay tablets used by the ancient
Sumerians and the Indus River Valley civilization</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">(Purdy, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Prono</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">, & </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Parcak</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">, 2006).</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 0in;">Paper writings were bound into
books—a </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 0in;">more portable and easier to read
technology than scrolls (Burke, 2009).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 0in;">The book making process however was still
tediously lengthy, as books had to be produced by scribes, usually monks, and
written by hand (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 0in;">n.d.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: 0in;">,
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">The Gutenberg printing press
revolutionized the making of books by drastically reducing the costs of
production and distribution (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">n.d.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">, 2011).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">With the reduction in cost, the audience
for books was greatly expanded and thus the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">printing press </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">was
pivotal in the dissemination of the written word and the spread of ideas </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">(Burke,
2009</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">). </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">With the advent of the printing press,
the need for libraries to organize books became apparent (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">n.d</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">.,
2012).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Initially, libraries adopted their own
systems of organization, but later, beginning in 1876, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Melvil</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">
Dewey devised his Decimal System to arrange books according to subject. Today,
the DDC and the LCC are the most common systems of classification used in the
US (Burke, 2009).</span></li>
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records have evolved significantly from early manuscript catalogs, to card
catalogs , to todays OPACs, however, a key development along the way was the
creation of automated library systems such as MARC (Machine-Readable
Cataloging) which is an intricate encoding system that is used to this day</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">
(Burke, 2009</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Since 1999, MARC 21 has provided a
universal encoding schema for the representation and communication of
descriptive metadata (Chan & Hodges, 2007). </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Once we reach the dawn of the computer
age, one should consider Moore’s Law, Gordon E. Moore was a cofounder of Intel,
which states that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit would
double every two years.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">His theory has proved remarkably
prescient regarding the exponential growth of computing power since the early
1970s as seen in the chart on the right.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Perhaps the most used instrument of
technology in libraries today is the PC. While PCs were introduced in the 1960s
they were somewhat cumbersome for ordinary use until user-friendly operating
systems, such as Windows and Mac OS, were introduced in the early 90s (Burke,
2009).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Thanks to Moore’s Law, the system specs,
or hardware, of PCs continues to rapidly evolve, even if (as we see on the
right) the overall design of PCs has not changed too much in the last 20 years
(</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Reichardt</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">, R.,
& Cox, C.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">
2006</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">While the Internet was first conceived in
the 1960s and arguably even as early as WWII, it was not ubiquitous in
libraries until the 1990s (Burke, 2009).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">The availability of the Internet and
online searching has provided library patrons and librarians with a wealth of
information and has dramatically shifted how we seek for and retrieve
information today; although, an abundance of information presents librarians
with distinct advantages and disadvantages (see Rubin, 2010).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">The mobile library (late
2000s): handhelds, phones, tablets, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">ebook</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"> readers</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Increasingly, library patrons and
librarians are using handheld devices to browse OPACs, check-out download and
read e-books, and even conduct research on the go (Rubin, 2010).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Libraries such as my own (UGA Libraries)
are placing significant importance on the mobile experience to accommodate the
information needs of library patrons. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Cloud computing is an important
development for LIS technology because it could conceivably eliminate the need
for libraries to house physical containers of information (e.g., books, CDs,
DVDs, microfilm, etc.) and replace such containers with data center networks
that allow users access to information via the Internet.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">It is unlikely that physical containers
will not disappear in our lifetimes, however, cloud computing could potentially
revolutionize the modern library as we know it. (Rubin, 2010).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">We began our chronology with the earliest
of media storage devices, papyrus, so it is fitting to close with the latest of
media storage devices—the cloud</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">. The future of LIS technology is sure to
bring surprises as well as improvements of PCs and the interconnectivity of
technological devices.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">As this chronology demonstrates, library
technology was and continues to be driven by innovation in information storage,
access, production, and retrieval. Libraries appear to be in period of flux,
with Internet access</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">and online
searching changing the very ways we think about information retrieval. But amid
such “Total Noise,” the library continues to play a critical institutional role
in the organization of information and the leader in adopting and advancing
technological innovation.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Work
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Burke, J. (2009). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">Neal-Schuman
library technology companion: A basic guide for library staff</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (3rd
ed.). New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chan, L. M., & Hodges, T.
(2007). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">Cataloging and classification: An introduction</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (3</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: super;">rd</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
ed.). Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Codex. (2012). In </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">Encylopedia</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">
Britannica</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.
Retrieved from </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.britannica.com/">www.britannica.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dewey Decimal Classification. (2012). In </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">Encylopedia</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">
Britannica</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.
Retrieved from </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">www.britannica.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Houghton </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mifflin Company. (2002). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">The
American Heritage college dictionary</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (4th</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> ed</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.).
Boston: Houghton Mifflin</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Printing Press. (2011). In </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">Encylopedia</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">
Britannica</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Purdy, E., </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Prono</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, L., & </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Parcak</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, S.
(2006). Egypt, ancient. In H. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Birx</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (Ed.), </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">Encyclopedia
of </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">anthropology.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(pp</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.
788-798). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE
Publications, Inc. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">doi</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">:
10.4135/9781412952453.n274</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Reichardt</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, R., & Cox, C. N. (2006). Moore's
Law and the Pace of Change. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">Internet Reference Services Quarterly</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">11</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(3), 117-124.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rubin, R. (2010). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">Foundations
of library and information science,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> New York : Neal- Schuman Publishers, 3</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: super;">rd</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
edition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wallace, David Foster (2007). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic;">The
Best American essays</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.
New York: Ticknor & Fields.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09344915052569338856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986790851630245492.post-50346866243761402982013-04-25T14:34:00.002-07:002013-04-25T14:38:06.958-07:00Netflix for Books?I recently read <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/04/e-book-subscriptions/">an intriguing article from Wired</a> about the unveiling of a subscription service for short story e-books. The service was announced by the UK bookstore, <a href="http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/">Waterstones</a>, and according to the article, there's another such streaming e-book service currently operating called <a href="http://www.fwmedia.com/community/writing">F+W Media</a>, which caters to romance genre enthusiasts. I'd never heard of a subscription service for books before, but one can imagine the possibilities if subscription e-book services were to take off.<br />
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The first thing that struck me was that these subscription models are currently catering toward specific genre audiences, which seems like a shrewd decision. As the Wired piece notes, while it might be easy to watch a few dozen episodes of a TV show on Netflix in a month, it's not as easy to read several books in a month. Therefore, the subscription model makes more sense for people who are heavy-readers and can read through books quickly--which is exactly the case for romance novel readers and short story lovers. There are other genres that might fit the delivery model criteria: thrillers, mysteries, true-crime, and maybe fantasy and sci-fi (although some of these books are very large). I'm sure there are other groups of readers too that might benefit from a subscription service.<br />
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But I'm not quite as optimistic as Wired that e-book subscriptions will flourish in the long-term because of the fleeting nature of the delivery model and the lack of broad-based appeal that subscription models have beyond niche markets. For example, what if I like owning my books and being able to look back on them? Will I be able to review the passages I highlighted or notes I made in the margins with a subscription plan? And what about readers who like literary fiction or non-fiction books; how would this service be made appealing to them?<br />
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Also worth considering are the tricky logistics of setting up subscriber networks. A critical question for me is how many people will be able to "check out" a title at once? If only so many people can read a title at once (and I suspect that will be the case given our current intellectual property laws and licensing agreements), are private companies just creating their own parallel digital queues for popular e-books, as currently exists for popular public library e-books?<br />
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As titilating of an idea as a Netflix for books might sound to bibliophiles, for the reasons I've cited above, I think we're still years away before we'll have a multi-genre, multi-publisher, wide-reaching e-book subscription service available to use on our e-readers and tablets. But there are reasons for optimism for the success of the subscription based model. The Kindle Lending Library, which makes 300,000 books available to Amazon Prime users who own Kindles, is certainly a service that deserves attention. I have Amazon Prime, but I don't own a Kindle, so I'm curious to hear what users of the Kindle Lending Library think. I could be way off the mark here. As with all technological speculation, only time will tell.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09344915052569338856noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986790851630245492.post-43267277696089270762013-02-04T12:29:00.002-08:002013-02-04T13:21:42.910-08:00Why Tablets? An Introduction<div class="MsoNormal">
I was struck while reading my
library technology textbook when I came across this passage on tablets: “Tablet
PCs can run Windows XP or Vista, or Linux, or can be modified to run Mac OS X,
though Apple does not sell an official tablet of its own. This innovative
interface may make its way into libraries over time” (Burke, 2009). What a
difference a few years can make! As we now know, the release of the first iPad
in 2010 dramatically overhauled the tablet market and changed the ideas of what
a tablet is and what a tablet can do. Fast forward to 2013 and the tablet
market continues to grow--nearly a quarter of Americans now own a tablet--and
competition in the marketplace is stronger than it has ever been with
companies such as Microsoft, Samsung, Google, and Barnes & Noble competing
with Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As a fan of tech gadgetry and curious to see for myself what
all the buzz was about, I purchased an iPad 2 in the summer of 2011. I enjoyed
the experience of surfing the Web, reading an ebook, watching YouTube, browsing
the app store, and playing the occasional game on my tablet. I hoped that I would
use my iPad for productive purposes as well, such as word processing, taking
notes, and for conducting research on the go; however, I found that, in my
experience, my iPad wasn’t as good at these tasks as my trusty old laptop. I
missed having a tactile keyboard for typing up long emails and Word documents.
And I found that the size and weight of my iPad was a bit cumbersome for
reading at long intervals. So, in the fall of 2012, I sold my iPad 2 and
purchased the smaller (easier to hold with one hand), newer (the screen has a
higher resolution than the iPad2), and more economical (only $200 for the 16 GB
version) Google Nexus 7. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As an Apple person familiar with the look and feel of iOS, it took
a bit of adjustment to get used to the Android platform; I’m currently running 4.2.1
Jelly Bean on my Nexus 7. But it really wasn’t all that different, and I was
able to install many of the same apps I enjoyed using on my iPad through the nifty,
if not quite as robust, Google Play store. Thus, the upshot of
my personal experience with tablets is that I’m familiar with both Apple and
Android platforms and aware of the strengths and limitations of each. I believe
that my experience will allow me to comment on a wider range of topics in
regard to tablets and user experience, than if I had stuck to just one platform
or the other. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In my role as a Library Associate III at the University of
Georgia’s Gwinnett Campus, I have some experience using tablets in the workplace
as well. We own several iPads, but they’re mostly collecting dust at the moment
(look for more on this predicament in another post). So in part, I’m writing
this blog as a way to find ways to use these iPads in the library and to discover
how other libraries are using their tablets. I’m also fascinated by technology,
books, and current events, so I hope this blog will allow me to share these
passions of mine with others as well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #392529; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.046875px; text-indent: -25px;">Burke, J. (2009). </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #392529; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.22em; text-indent: -25px;">Neal-Schuman library technology companion: A basic guide for library staff</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #392529; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.046875px; text-indent: -25px;"> (3rd ed.). New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09344915052569338856noreply@blogger.com5