- computer network- covers small physical area
- created due to need for high speed interconnectivity within organizations, business and institutions
- another attraction of networking was shared disk space and access to printers
- structured cabling basis of most LANs these day
- is a group of interconnected computers, able to communicate with each other and share resources and information
- able to connect through either wired or wireless technologies
- networks are classified by scale, whether for local, wide, metropolitan use, etc.
- PAN- personal area network- connects computer to other hardware (printers, scanners, etc)
- LAN- local area network- covers small physical space. Could connect multiple computers and hardware within a house or business. Higher data transfer rates
- Internet- worldwide interconnection. Use service providers and addressing standards
- networks made up of basic hardware building blocks to interconnect nodes
- reiterating the different types of networks as explored in wikipedia article
Management of RFID in Libraries
- radio frequency identifier
- consists of computer chip and antenna
- like a bar code read by an electromagnetic field
- "libraries use new technologies because the conditions in the general environment that led to the development of the technology are also the conditions in which the library operates"
- RFID systems can read mulitple tags at once, might make checking out library materials faster and simplier
- Return on investment- automatically check in books as come through, could also maybe produce a sorting machine that could read RFID information
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