10 of assignment 1

There is new competition in town against the new sensation Wikipedia called Citizendium. This online encylopedia hopes to catch everyones interest like Wikipedia but avoiding the vandalism and other pitfalls that Wikipedia has. This is also nonprofit and volunteer contributors will be expected to give their real names. It also solicited guidance from academics and specialists. This site can still be dysfunctional because of the sense of tribalism, a sense of people writing over other peoples words.

9 of assignment 1

Wikipedia's latest scandal is the revelation that a very high-ranking administrator, and employee of an associated commercial venture, Wikia, had falsified his academic credentials. The false statement was said on the New Yorker Aticle stating the Essjay was a tenured professor of religion at a private university with a Phd in theology and a degree in canon law. Truthfully Essjays real name was Ryan Jordan who was 24 and held no advanced degrees. The finger is now being pointed at the executive management.

8 of assignment 1

Dozens of schools have recently started to reject gifts of free classic books because they say that todays pupils find them "too dificult" to read. Books from William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Charles Dickens have been refused to be stocked because youngsters have admitted that they were boring. Critics said the figures are a damning indictment of the quality of state education in the UK and come at a time when fewer than half of all teenagers are achieving basic standards in GCSE English. I believe that the students do not have a say in what they want to read in school at this early age. Classic novels should definitely be read to highten education of young people.

7 of assignment 1

Fort Huachuca Library, located on an Army installation base in southeastern Arizona, has just recently closed after officials determined that the library did not meet community and Army standards. Sources from the Fort Huachuca Library, the library’s users, primarily soldiers and their families, were clearly left out of the decision process. ALA president Leslie Berger has even expressed her concerns to the military saying that depriving these library users from information, technology, and importantly education at times of war is a horrible idea. The militraries idea is to create partnerships with other businesses to have a municipal partnership.

6 of assignment 1

A former pentagon analyst and a pro skateboarder are just some of the few latest readers to detail their favorite books in the list of "Who Reads What", which in the past few decades have been the top pics of presidents, atheletes, and movie stars. This year has had a strong representation about topics related to history. It is believed so because of the turmoil and war in Iraq that is taking place. It is also a relevant topic because it "correlates with what the times are" said from a retired librarian. There has also been a share of lighthearted books revealed by former president Bill Clinton.

5 of assignment 1

Recently, there has been a new website for all those library lovers to win a some money and show the world how much they appreciate the library system. Librario is an online community shared by people around the world who are in love with libraries. They have started a contest to see who has the greatest homemade video with the contestant professing their deep abiding love for libraries and the librarians who depend on them. The winning video will also be show at the American Library Associations Annual Conference in Washington, DC. This is a great way to show appreciation to our local libraries.

10 library quotes

All that mankind has done, though, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.- Thomas Carlyle

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now -- only that place where the books are kept.- John Steinbeck

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.- Ross MacDonald

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.- Logan Pearsall Smith

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.- Thomas Hobbes

The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones. - Joseph Joubert

If we encounter a man of great intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choose an author as you would a friend.- Wentworth Dillon

It is with books as it is with men -- a very small number play a great part; the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

reading assignment 5, web hoaxes...

You always have to be careful whenever you are looking in the internet for the most reliable and most valuable resources. In most cases in college, whenever you are writing some sort of paper, you need to list references. Credibility is shown from articles or others related on the internet bythe foundation whom has created the credit or usually a copyright with a date. Many resources on the web has been proven to carry very false information about their accreditation. You have to be very careful in what you reference because anyone in the present can create anything and put it on the internet. This article describes different reasons of why counterfeit sites are created. Counterfeit sites pass their sites off as authentic and having accurate information. It also states that counterfeit sites are the most troublesome hoaxes on the World Wide Web. Counterfeit sites are made to look like legitimate sites, but in all actuality are full of false information. One of the main sites they use for example is martinlutherking.org which was proven to be completely false and totally biased. This article is very helpful in finding the sites worthy of doing research with. It points out particle things to pick out fo figure out if the site you are looking at is a reliable source. I truly believe that this problem will be ever growing till there are a couple limititations placed upon the net by maybe government officials.

Can Wikepedia Ever Make the Grade

It seems one of the greatest sources on the internet to find timely information is the open source encyclopedia called Wikepedia. Many studies have been done to prove the efficacy and expertise of this website including one professor placing false information into the site and seeing if anyone was to catch on. His theory that Wikepedia can have false information was beaten after hours he posted the false information. Wikepedia editors deleted his false information 3 hours after he posted them. Still there are many skeptics that believe that in this encyclopedia, you do not know if you are reading an established person in the field or some random joe out there. But also there are other scholars out there beginning to want to contribute to the encyclopedia saying that "if you can't beat them, join them" attitude. Many scholars also believe that the site is always in a state of constant flux meaning that anyone can post information that is false and it stays on there for a couple hours for people to read then it is taken off. It is very vulnerable to vandelism. But there are signs of success for Wikepedia through plenty of studies that have been done. One study has shown that Wikepedia was as precise as commercial enclyclopedia. Still there are many questions that rise, like are Wikepedians good historians? In conclusion, it just seems that there should just be an attitude adjustment that everyone must adapt to the aggressive, transparent approach to scholarship favored on the web.

Libraries play vital role within our communities

This article explains of why libraries play a great role in every community. They did studies on the value of the library and how we don't have to spend a single dime when we use anything in the library. Researchers did studies of the worth of libraries to their communities. Researchers has also done surveys on how the library improves the overall quality of their life and how it increases property values. Over 80 percent of business owners said that the information in the library contributed to the success of their business.

A new way to keep runners connected to fans

Something new has been made to increase the advancement of informational technology. Chips have been made so runners can attach it to themselves for their loved ones and others to have the most recent time they are in the marathons even when they are cities away. The chips are attached to shoes and when they run across rubber mats, a signal emits to an antenna which is then transferred to a central database. Although this new technology is not perfect, its a great way to keep up with everything in a marathon because you cannot follow the races at all times.