Collaboration and Cooperation

National
The NLCR is part of an ongoing Research and Technology Development (RTD) project for the Czech Republic in both the long term and the short term. Long-term projects include focusing on organizing, maintaining, and archiving a digital library, setting up bibliographic records of full texts of newspaper and journal articles, and developing a national catalog.
Short-term or current projects include continued efforts toward creating and maintaining full text databases for professional foreign periodicals, and national periodicals. Other goals include cataloging historical music collections, and “optimizing the structure of Information Resources in the Library of Library Science in the National Library of the Czech Republic (Corradini, 2006)


International
Internationally, the NLCR is involved in the Eureka! Project which focuses on endangered cultural heritage and the preservation, investigation and copyright thereof (Corradini, 2006). They also support IDAP (Improved Damage Assessment of Parchment) to conserve and restore documents.

Corradini, M. (2006, January 3). National library of the czech republic, research and development. Retrieved from http://www.nkp.cz/_en/pages/page.php3?page=weba_hl_ukoly2003_en.htm

What I learned in our first class weekend

This class weekend was really good for me. I have been confused about many things in the class so far and the weekend of face to face class time was useful in helping to solidify the content of the class work for me. I liked the discussion time that we had both Friday night about the United Nations document that we'd read previously, and about the articles that we all read on Saturday morning.
The article I read was really interesting in the way it talked about Complex Adaptive Systems as being similar to a flock of birds; when one bird changes course the course of the whole is altered. This made me think of facebook. I wonder if when facebook was created anyone ever thought that advertisers would look at it as a legitimate form of advertising or that programmers would create so many different ways to use the technology. Facebook has changed because of a collaboration of several people.