Week 2: My House’s Network
Typology: SOHO LAN Network (Small Office Home Office LAN Network).
Network: Includes devices (e.g. notebooks, smartphones, printer, etc) and connections (e.g. WAN, wireless, PAN (Bluetooth, Infrared, NFC), LAN cable).
Stakeholder: The network is for internal use only. All the devices share the same network. Stakeholders are family members.
Host: The network is hosted at home without a server.
Backup: If the network goes down, only smartphones can be operated through the cellular network. The rest of the devices will not be able to be operated. In terms of data backup, it is done regularly using commercial software to a portable hard drive.
Advantages: It is a simple network, and very easy to add extra devices.
Disadvantages:
- It is not high availability. The access point box is a single point of failure. If the box goes down, the devices will not be able to be operated, except smartphones. There is no alternate internet provider.
- Smart TV 2 is connected with the access point through Wi-Fi from a different room. This could impact to live steaming.
- Unable to access the devices from outside the network, except smartphones.
Effectiveness: It is at the satisfactory level, considering our needs, cost and benefit.
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Hi Fon,
Welcome. I hope you enjoy the course.
Jo
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Good discussion of the 24/7 library in Foster. Do you have any strategies for how libraries in larger city libraries might implement such a system?
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Implementation of 24/7 staff-less libraries in a big city is a major challenge, as the model is more successful in rural areas than cities due to the more peaceful rural setting where vandalism is generally less (Johannsen, 2017). However, the 24/7 model was successful in the city of Copenhagen, and this model was widespread in all public libraries by 2016. The most common challenges and problems with 24/7 were found to be inappropriate space utilisation by young people and the homeless, which has caused libraries to stop providing staff-less facilities in some areas. However, patron satisfaction (from a scale of 1 to 10) was measured at an average of 9.2 with the model, and they were generally very happy with the opportunity to be able to use their libraries over a longer period of time (Petersen as cited in Johannsen, 2017). The success factors of the 24/7 model in large city (like Copenhagen) libraries were to ensure that a suitable security system is in place to cope with the challenges and problems, and that the residents have developed local ownership in libraries use (Petersen as cited in Johannsen, 2017).
Reference:
Johannsen, C. G. (2017). Staff-Less Libraries: Innovative Staff Design. ProQuest.
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com
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Interesting discussion on the topic of IoT. You have given a good overview of many the issues. What do you think the challenges that IoT present to libraries’ IT leadership are?
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The major challenge that IoTs presents to libraries’ IT leadership is to create security management awareness to patrons who use the libraries network and devices (Massis, 2016). Librarians also need to be trained to be able to address the on-going security issues with patrons (Massis, 2016).
Reference:
Massis, B. (2016). The Internet of Things and its impact on the library. New Library
World, 117(3/4), 289–292. https://doi.org/10.1108/NLW-12-2015-0093
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Good discussion on the topic of the influence of algorithms. You have raised a number of interesting points. Do you think libraries have an education role in this space?
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I think libraries have an education role in this space too (but not exclusively). Libraries can educate internet users and patrons (where the facilities are available) to be aware of the importance of this issue.
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Excellent evaluation. You have made good use of the literature to support your discussion. Including screenshots of the webpage would have helped illustrate some of your points. Good awareness of the accessibility issues. Seventeen navigation buttons seems quite excessive. I hope you found this activity useful.
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I think the activity has been very useful and practical. I have now developed a good website awareness of usability and accessibility. Anytime I browse a website, I try to evaluate if the website is usable, accessible and also identify the improvement areas (by talking to myself).
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