Author Archives: Diane Tippett

 How are public libraries responding to the issue of digital inclusion and people with disabilities? What technology are they using and / or what changes have been made? How does it work? Fitzgerald et. al. notes that both “physical and geographical access to digital technology” (2015, p. 214) must be considered in relation to theContinue reading “Week 10 – Adaptive and Assistive Technologies”

Hi all, I have noticed some interesting developments in GLAMR institutions using Web 3.0 technologies to maintain and increase services during the COVID-19 crisis. I have updated my week 4 blog, which has an embedded video of a MONA live stream of a living “art work” in the gallery, if anyone would be interested inContinue reading “Updated week 4 post”

What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of having a statewide centralised LMS? STAKEHOLDER: LIBRARY USER Advantages Access to special interest/general items not owned by their library, especially for rural and isolated users; one of the main points illustrated by the following video published by Libraries SA in relation to the OneCard Network: Comprehensive andContinue reading “Week 9 – Web Technologies and LMS”

Improvement 1. Piola (2018) suggests having a search that would allow users to toggle between the website search and catalogue search – this is a functional that is missing on my website! Definitely a limitation of WordPress as a CMS was this inability to toggle in general. Additionally though, the fact is the catalogue searchContinue reading “Week 8 – Web Technologies”

Hi all, apologies on this post being late. I moved house two weeks ago and started a new job today- so things have been quite crazy! I have chosen to analyse the Moscow Museum of Modern Art website located in English, at the following link: http://www.mmoma.ru/en/. Hopefully such a unique case analysis will garner yourContinue reading “Week 6 – Web Design”

ARTICLE ANALYSIS My first thoughts when reading Arvanitakis’ 2017 article regarding the opaque algorithms that Facebook and Google use, was that it was opinionated to its own detriment. References to pop culture, such as House of Cards, and hyperbole affected the credibility of his otherwise valid points and credibility as a professor and university ChancellorContinue reading “Week 5 – Information Retrieval and Internet Search”

Augmented reality in libraries Augmented reality is a technology which allows the overlay of images onto the physical world (Van Arnhem and Spiller, 2014). A notable example of the use of AR in libraries, as noted by Jo in this weeks lecture, is Miami University Library’s invention of ShelvAR which scans tagged/RFID library material andContinue reading “Week 4 – Internet Content and Information Services”

Dara’s (2019) discussion of personal digital assistants (PDAs) focussed on the use of these devices in the personal context. She notes that government does have a “complex” and important role to play in regulating what data and how PDAs gather that data can be allowed. I think this becomes particularly interesting to consider if weContinue reading “Week 3 – Security”

Canvas and Cloud Networks Quite a few different people have posted thus far about the physical IT networks that exist in their lives… I actually interpreted the question this week a little differently and thus will be discussing the cloud network that the University of Sydney uses called Canvas; with a discussion of cloud networkingContinue reading “Week 2 – Networks and Internet Technologies”

Hi all! I’m Diane! I applied for this course and enrolled slightly late in this course on Friday (the last day to enrol) due to only applying and being offered a place in the Graduate Diploma of Information Management (Library and Information Management) last week. Previously I studied at the University of Adelaide where IContinue reading “Week 1 – Introduction”