Is data compression what is being used or what is being reversed in the creation of high-definition DVDs like BluRay?
Possibly the best-written WikiTech article I’ve read yet for this class. Let’s keep it up!
Does anybody use Zip drives anymore? Is a zip drive the same thing as an external hard drive? I so totally remember wanting a zip drive badly in my tween years cause they had these sweet ads, but I can’t say I actually know anybody who got one, other than Carrie Bradshaw.
Thanks Aidan!!!ACRL
With YouTube and Blogger both owned by Google, it should now be easier than ever to get tech-savvy at your library. I can especially imagine teen services hopping
on this.Do you think in another 5 years that watching a series of YouTube videos will be a part of the summer reading program at your local library? I’m thinking back to the 2007 summer reading program especially, which involved kids playing detective (y'all remember—007 right?).
Data Compression
The DVD link I guessed at is here! Makes me wonder about laser disks. Do you remember them? They were vinyl-sized but made out of DVD material and played on what resembled a superhuge DVD player.
We had them in art class when I was in 6th grade to replace slides. The art teacher (hugz for Mr. Riskofski!) loved them, but was back to slides the next year for our lessons in art appreciation for some reason. *Ponder*Digital Library
This is a fantastic example of (and a well- and clearly-written explanation of) a fabulous cross-city collaboration. The reality of the difficulty of such a collaboration, though, came to life in the “Communication Challenges” section when the author said “A simple example is a cataloging discussion we once had regarding subject terms. Our museum friends tend to view their image collections as works of art with intrinsic value as a photograph. The academic archives tend to view their image collections for utilitarian purposes with minimal description, while the historical society’s practice has been to provide contextual information that not only describes the image, but informs the reader about the history and impact of an area or person depicted by the image.” I went and spent a few minutes on the site (a link to which was buried all the way down in the article’s references) and found it spiffy. Please to enjoy yourselves: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/.
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Do you think in another 5 years that watching a series of YouTube videos will be a part of the summer reading program at your local library?
Goodness, I hope not! Kind of defeats the whole purpose of reading, does it not? But I think you are right, this may be the case in a few years; still, as a society I'm not sure it's healthy to be plugged in too often. Can't we go to the library and not be bombarded with everyone's online message? What is wrong with reading inside one's own mind?
There are weird and creepy issues of sociological dependency here. Younger generations are growing up completely familiar with technology, in video games, the Net, etc. and future generations will find it hard to exist without these things. I'm so uneasy about the future we're creating. I know we can't get rid of technology, but we don't have to officially encourage dependence on it in today's youth, if we can help it.
That's one of the best-put defences I've ever heard for the reduction of technology in our lives. "...future generations will find it hard to exist without these things." "We don't have to officially encourage dependence..." Wow. I've always treated it as a sort of generation gap--something to laugh at--when talking with an older person about getting by without cell phones, graphing calculators (hello slide rules), or the internet. Huh. Must rethink.
I used Zip drives in college - it was the new thing at the time. Sigh.
They weren't exactly external hard drives, more like a disc that you could carry around with you, and use at a computer with a zip drive (internal or external). Kind of like flash drives, but bigger and a lot less convenient. I think they're all but obsolete now.
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