#pilgf http://t.co/Np3CHmmt Here is the book where article Lonka (2012) about theoretical foundations for engaging learning!
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With computers growing smaller and lifestyles going mobile, less and less devices offer sufficient space for internal optical drives.
Option 1: USB Stick Option 2: SD(HC) Card Option 3: External Hard Drive (HDD) Option 4: External Solid State Drive (SSD) Option 5: Cloud Storage
"Many alternatives for optical drives exist, but few can compete with the price and theoretical lifetime of Blu-ray discs. On the other hand, many make for better long term investments. In the long run, you should always have your data stored in at least two future-proof locations. But for the moment, Blu-ray discs and DVDs are a viable storage method. Just make sure you move your data before your last way to access them disappears. Via liblivadia Delete the scoop?
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Sue McKemmish & Andrew Wilson: "It’s estimated that in 2011 a truly staggering 1.8 zettabytes of digital information was created. Or to put it in more meaningful terms, that’s 57.5 billion 32-gigabyte iPads full. Recent articles about this “digital deluge” warn of an approaching “digital dark age” if this vast amount of digital information isn’t preserved for posterity. The old refrain that “storage is cheap, just keep everything” was never true. Recently the global market intelligence firm IDCestimated that the world’s demand for storage is increasing by 60% a year. Given market research firm IHS iSuppli estimates hard disk storage densities will only improve by 19% a year for the next five years, and IT budgets are growing at an annual rate between 0 and 2%, there is clearly a looming storage crisis.
The challenges involved in preserving the huge datasets created by governments, businesses and research institutions have prompted some dire predictions about the loss of digital history." Delete the scoop?
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By NICOLE WESKERNA: "DeKALB – With the help of a $575,000 grant, a group of university librarians and curators hope to have an answer to a growing problem. Lynne Thomas, curator of rare books and special collections at Northern Illinois University’s Founders Memorial Library, learned in October that NIU, along with four other universities, secured a grant to study the best practices for storing digital data. The federal National Leadership Grant came from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. “Libraries have been taking on digital objects for the last 10 to 15 years,” she said. “The grant will help us learn how to scale [the process] down for institutions with fewer resources.” With the passage of time, storage devices can degrade over time, a phenomenon known colloquially as “bit rot.” Thomas said saving digital objects such as PDFs and video files from bit rot is a problem librarians and archivists have been working to solve for years. But it’s mostly large, well-funded institutions that can afford today’s archiving systems. Librarians and curators from Chicago State University, Western Illinois University, Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University are joining NIU in a group called Digital Preserving Digital Objects With Restricted Resources." Delete the scoop?
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RT @librarythingtim: How to Prepare for the End of Optical Media http://t.co/vYQAKBQs ;
Although written from a personal digitization viewpoint, it is also valid information for librarians and archivists. - Audio discs - DVDs - Software - Backups (including cloud) Delete the scoop?
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The widening gap between the amount of data the world produces and the capacity to store it is giving a new lease of life to the humble cassette tape.
"Although consumers have abandoned the audio cassette in favour of the ubiquitous iPod, organisations with large amounts of data, from patient records to capacity-hungry video archives, have continued to use tape as a cheap and secure storage medium. Researchers at IBM are trying to keep this 60-year old technology relevant for at least the next decade and they are getting help from rising energy costs, which are forcing companies to look for cheaper alternatives to stacks of power-hungry hard drives. Evangelos Eleftheriou and his colleagues at IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a cassette just 10cm by 10cm by 2cm that can hold about 35 terabytes of data, the equivalent of a library with 400km of bookshelves. "It is really the greenest storage technology," Eleftheriou told Reuters. "Tape at rest, consumes literally zero power." Delete the scoop?
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BY CLAIRE CONNELLY: "HISTORIANS will be facing a black hole when it comes to studying the 20th and 21st centuries because much of our digital history is stored on technology that no longer have devices to read them, experts claim. The information stored on everything from floppy disks to CDs, mobile phones to cameras is at risk of being lost forever, Canadian information security consultant Robert Slade told News Ltd.
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"David Chalifoux is man with a mission. That mission: to store and protect the 137790 books, journals, VHS tapes, and microfilm from the college's libraries. Dave is the supervisor at Williams' Library Shelving Facility (LSF), a concrete, off-site storage space that is currently housing objects from Sawyer Library, Schow Library, Archives and Special Collections, and Chapin Library of Rare Books while the new library complex is being built. The LSF is also the permanent home of low-usage journals from Sawyer." Delete the scoop?
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RT @DerangeDescribe: Hey librarians, worried about the end of unlimited storage? http://t.co/xOJOvFMb Ask an archivist. Delete the scoop?
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By Roisin Gwyer, Ruth Stubbings & Graham Walton (Eds.)
Series: IFLA Publications Series 157
Publisher: Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur, 2012
"Information literacy has been identified as a necessary skill for life, work and citizenship - as well as for academic study - for all of us living in today's information society. This international collection brings together practitioner and research papers from all sectors of information work. It includes case studies and good practice guides, including how librarians and information workers can facilitate information literacy from pre-school children to established researchers, digital literacy and information literacy for citizens."
Publisher's link: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/181777?format=G