Month: October 2012
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Best Practices for Users to Organize Files in a Google Apps World
We have completed the move to Google Apps at Casper College and are thus entering a new era of Digital Asset Creation. This is actually my second institution(the first was Western Oklahoma State College in 2007) to convert to Google Apps for education so I have a pretty good perspective how users can rapidly become overwhelmed when…
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Are You Ready for the Digital Dark Age?
Data Storage and the Digital Dark Age “Back when information was hard to copy people valued the copies and took care of them. Now, copies are so common as to be considered worthless, and very little attention is given to preserving them over the long term. “(Brandt, 2003) —-Danny Hillis It is a valid concern…
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Are you Ready for the Zettabyte?
NOTE: I have really enjoyed discussing techy stuff with our new Casper College librarian Brad Matthies since he arrived at Casper College and asked him to add his 2 cents to this blog post. He contributed some really great stuff related to the Digital Dark Age section of this post and greatly reduced the…