Digital Libraries: challenges and influential work
It is amazing to me how one thing can lead to another. Like how Google grew from the research the people with the Stanford DLI-1 project did. Although, it seems normal for this to happen, it is still amazing and interesting to see it happen. Hopefully federal funding will continue to be given to institutions to keep these projects going. More powerful and helpful research tools can and will be created with the help of federal government. This in turn will allow students and other researchers the change to look at more things to improve their theses.
Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative
The analogy of the parents with a child is slightly entertaining and describes the relationship between computer scientists and librarians and with the World Wide Web. The relationship though is a tad strained, at the beginning and now. Computer scientists do want to do things their way and sometimes ignore the needs of librarians. While librarians do the same thing on their end. The happy medium for these two is slowly being found. Arguments are still going to be fought, and may always be fought, but compromises will also be found. If a compromise is not found, then these two groups just need to move on to something else. The work that these two groups are doing is a great one. These collections do need to be moved online and libraries do need to find cheaper ways to get the information to their patrons. Hopefully computer scientists and librarians can stay in partnership and figure out new and improved ways for patrons to get information.
"Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age"
Lynch seems to have a good grasp on his thoughts. I am not sure if I fully agree or disagree with him. I may have to go back and read this again to fully understand what he is saying and to form my own thoughts.
I think that computer scientists and librarians are still working together in spite of their differences because it's a mutually beneficial system. Libraries need help with digital information networks and moving collections online; many of the really significant advances that computer science has made since the advent of the Internet have been made in cooperation with libraries. It seems like both parties assert their relevance in today's information environment - at least in part - through their cooperation with each other.
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