Readings for Week 2

Of the required readings for week 2, the one that stood out the most was the Arms reading (Chapter 2). The link that was posted in the "Lectures" section didn't work, so I looked in "Books" and found it there. Here is a direct link to it for those who may have not been able to find it and happen to be reading this.

Anyway, this reading reminded me of things we had to read in LIS 2000 and in other courses about the history of the internet. Although most of the information in this article should be common knowledge to most MLIS students at this point, it was still a nice refresher.

On the other hand, because it dates back to the late '90s, it felt arcane, as did the Arms/Blanchi/Overly and Payette/Blanchi/Lagoze/Overly articles as well. It made me wonder when we'll get to read more recent literature on the subject of Digital Libraries. I also felt that these readings were difficult to understand, too full of technical jargon and ultimately a bit frustrating.

I received the Lesk book in the mail today from Amazon and I see that it's from 2005, though, so I look forward to reading it.