1.) http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-infrastructure.htm/printable
This article describes how information is transmitted from around the world to your home computer.
2.) Dismantling the Integrated Library System
The interoperability of systems in the library is more myth than reality. The ILS systems don't (usually) work easily with each other. If they do it is only after the libraries IT staff works to integrate them. Even if they are used with open source, staff will still have to work to get them to work the way the library needs it too.
I know where I work at a law firm. . . when a new data management system was put in place it took months before our old database worked in conjunction with the new system. Nearly two years after starting to use the new software bugs are still being worked out.
3.) Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Inside the Google Machine
This 20 minute video explains how programs are developed at Google. Such as you can use 20% of your time to work on personal projects. This produced the Google News application and a social networking site. Google remains free, so that anyone with access to power and the internet can use their applications. They fund this through the use of advertising. Through this use of advertising they are able to donate to various organization through The Google Foundation.
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Jen,
I hear you about what is going with your Law Firm. We installed a new system at our library this past summer and we are still having issues with it. Issues that many of us are saying, "And this was supposed to help us again how?"
However, we are willing to admit...it is better than what we had.
I agree with you that the new software is better than what we had, but it was a long time before any of us would admit that.
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