Excercise 6 Report about the internet and the library

The Internet and The library

The relation between the Internet and The library

Introduction

The report is briefly How come relation between the library and the internet, How to use internet with a library.

Body
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail. In addition it supports popular services such as online chat, file transfer and file sharing, gaming, commerce, social networking, publishing, video on demand, and teleconferencing and telecommunications. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications allow person-to-person communication via voice and video.
The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United States funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. This research and a period of civilian funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation spawned worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies and led to the commercialization of an international network in the mid 1990s, and resulted in the following popularization of countless applications in virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2009, an estimated quarter of Earth's population uses the services of the Internet.

A library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. It can mean the collection, the building or room that houses such a collection, or both. The term "library" has itself acquired a secondary meaning: "a collection of useful material for common use," and in this sense is used in fields such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, electronics and biology.
Public and institutional collections and services may be intended for use by people who choose not to — or cannot afford to — purchase an extensive collection themselves, who need material no individual can reasonably be expected to have, or who require professional assistance with their research. In addition to providing materials, libraries also provide the services of librarians who are experts at finding and organizing information and at interpreting information needs.
However, with the sets and collection of media and of media other than books for storing information, many libraries are now also repositories and access points for maps, prints, or other documents and various storage media such as microform (microfilm/microfiche), audio tapes, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, and DVDs. Libraries may also provide public facilities to access subscription databases and the Internet.

These new undertakings indicate how the internet stimulate new or expanded public library service, and there are numerous unigue and worthwhile projects being initiated at individual libraried. However, it remains difficult to assess the impact of those internet-mediated service upon the use of libraries. Circulation statistic are a standard indicator of library usage and could offer some insight. In the late 1990s.Statistic indicated a general trend of decreasing library circulation, at the same time that increasing usage of electronic resources was noted, Since the begining of the recent recession in March 2001, the library reseach center found that cieculation has increased significantly ( supporting the notion goes up ). Recent research sponsored by the American library association (ALA) showed 26% of people visiting the public library used the internet while they were there. According to library journal's budget survey, Internet usage inside libraries rose by nearly 25% and remote usage was up 45% in libraries that measure such usage. Libraries from the New York public library to the multnomah country public library ( port-land, oregon ) report increased internet usage and an increase in technical guestion, many from job seekers, but not in attendance at internet instruction classes. Paralleling these increases. libraries report that internet related expanditures continue to rise as well. Library journal's budget survey showed that in 2002, respondents reported 4.6% of their budget going to the internet, representing a 28% increase from 3 years ago in 2003, libraries project a hefty 7.9% increase in internet expanditures over FY 2002.
At this time, therefore, it appears that a major new use of the library is for internet access. There are, however, a number of unknowns in the relationship between the internet and public library use, and the nature of the relationship the two remains uncertain. An essential question being debated among library administrators and staff is whether people will still feel the need for the public library, as access to the internet within the home become more widespread and more users become adept and confident in its use. An additional question is whether people will still use the library for information seeking and other information services, with the availability of the internat in their homes. There are several scenarios that could play out over time.The internet and the public library could evole a complementary relationship, with each fulfilling certain information needs and functions. Beyond a complementary relationship, the two information providers could actually benefit each other by reinforcing each other's use. A stressor relationship could also evolve, resulting in chang with the library accommodating by revising it's mission and providing a new mix of service. A competive relationship could result the least desirable scenario, with the eventual obsolescence of the library.

Conclusion
The report about relation between the internet and the library are help each other because the libraries expand service for the peoples by internet to get more information seeking and more information with easy way. The people can access to the library at home and could play over time.

Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet