This week's readings regarding the Internet and how it works was rather enjoyable this week. The article "How Internet Infrastructure Works" sounds like a boring title and would be rather tedious to read, but I found that to be one of the better articles we've read for class. Seeing how the internet infrastructure is made up of a bunch of smaller networks into one seems like it was something I've known before, but seeing it discussed in the article made it even clearer to me. The graph that the article provides describing the Internet Hierarchy really help clear up any confusion on the way that the Internet is established for a personal computer using a large Internet Service Provider (ISP) or even a company that uses a Large Area Network (LAN) for their internet needs.
The second article for our readings discussed the use of the Internet and its effects on the Integrated Library Systems across the nation. It seems like it is an issue that has no easy solution because of how many libraries that use the integrated systems for a lot of their services, but it needs to be changed eventually. Because of the ever growth of the Internet and how it continues to expand into more fields and become more useful it makes sense that the libraries across the nation would get rid of their systems that are becoming outdated. On the other hand, it seems like it would cost a lot of money for a library to do something like that and would deter it from taking on a project like that. The one thing that I have to note is that the article is from 2004, and could be out of date due to the new technology that is in place today. Some new technology could have been invented between the article and now that makes the process of changing a system over slightly easier for a library.
Overall I rather enjoyed these articles that we had for readings this week. If there are more articles like this ahead I would appreciate it.
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