Week 5 Notes

• I have used LANs before mostly for Halo Parties with friends. Setting up a LAN is not that hard, you just have to have some basic IT experience to do it.
• Saying that something is "the year of the LAN" makes it sound a lot more exciting than it actually is... but I guess that at the time, the idea of hooking multiple computers/printers together so that they could communicate with one another was a truly revolutionary idea. 
•  The internet is a series of tubes OR a series of networks.
• I always find it difficult to keep a remote connection to the ULS network when I am off campus. It seems to be unstable.
• RFID = radio frequency identifier
• I have heard of using RFID tags in libraries, but unfortunately the tags have short read ranges and are expensive.
• The PA Turnpike uses RFID tags in their Easy Pass devices.
• My parents' dog has a microchip that uses RFID technology.
• I still remember when bar codes were introduced to our library when I was in elementary school. I certainly streamlined the work flow of the library.
• RFID tags would be helpful in the library especially when trying to locate books that were put back in the wrong place! I cannot tell you how many times I have gone to get a book of the shelf, only to find that it has been lost in the stacks due to someone being irresponsible with it!