Network
Resource Sharing
The rapid development of modern
information technology has greatly improved the ability of human stored
knowledge and the propagation velocity of information. The globalization of the
network make use of the information that is no longer subject to time and space
constraints, network users can access internet anytime to various information
systems. Technology development has made network resource sharing the most
efficient and convenient way to obtain the required information.
Internet as a one of the most fast carrier to transport information and resources in modern
society, it makes our life more convenient
and give us more knowledge. Thus, the progress of human
society requires the convenient features of internet;
human knowledge can be more quickly and appropriately
improved only when accumulated more idea.
[No library today can be expected to directly hold all of the resources
to fulfill all the needs of its users. Rather, most libraries supplement their
local collections through resource-sharing arrangements that allow them to
offer their clientele access to a broader universe of materials.] (Breeding
Marshal) According to Breeding Marshal said, internet plays an important role
in support of resource sharing, even library uses internet as a effective way
to sharing and offer people articles and knowledge.
Some of the people said there are some
harmful sides of sharing articles and information on the internet. Some people thought
although the information technology is rapid developing, so that we can save
much more time for put those information and articles online, digital
technology also makes it easier to share the information. However, human
knowledge is created in different languages, different history background,
different publication types and different carriers, so online literature
information resource is not standardized yet, that makes online information
very complex, and making them very difficult to be used in a effective way.
Also internet is an open system, everyone can share
information on the internet, and any individuals and groups cannot interfere in other
people's online behavior. Then cause information uncontrolled and disordered, making information on the Internet
very massive, this characteristics of
the Internet itself causing information pollution. However, those information that mixed
by many different culture and different languages can offer people more chances
to know something we didn't know before. Besides, everybody need to fully
understand and learn to sensibly deal with the role of internet in the
complicated information networks. Secondly users need to learn to filter useful
information, so that the internet give full play to its role. Additional use
sensible vision to deal with the negative effects of the internet, to improve
their own ability to exclude invalid information.
Moreover, we all have to admit that
internet changes the way our society works. One of the most strongest thesis is
that in the last few years is information sharing on the internet. In a very
short period of time, Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter and YouTube have all become
a part of modern life, while people are sharing everything on the internet or
on their personal websites. Moreover, users do not need any software, without
any advanced technical training, people can choose to add a huge variety of space
and upload their own observations and knowledge. In the book Free Culture, Lawrence
Lessig said "As the Internet has been integrated into ordinary life, it
has changed things. Some of these changes are technical—the Internet has made
communication faster, it has lowered the cost of gathering data, and so on."(7)
Although these are not the focus of this book, he was trying to state an effect
of the internet beyond the internet itself in this book. From the introduction,
Lessig thought The Internet has caused
an important effect and some unrecognized
change though its improving. This change will completely change the tradition that was
recognized by the public. In most cases, if the public recognize this change, they may reject it, but most
of the people do not even see the
changes that the Internet has introduced.
I agree with this point, the Internet has changed the way people communicate
with each other. A great amount of
information can be obtained from the Internet. It
changes so fast, so that we are changing
our habits of getting information. In
the past, many of us were accustomed
to learn about news by listening to the radio;
few years later it changed to watch television
for news show, then search news on the internet. In the
past, people learnt industry
information through meetings,
nowadays, they can web browsing related web site to learn information about their work. some people might like to read magazines and newspapers previously.
But now they even have some favorite blog that they would read
on time.
We can't deny that sharing and getting
information on the internet have become a big part of our life. Then what we
need to do is that try our best to keep the internet environment clean, because
we need to look at the whole picture, not just its parts. Secondly, we need to
share information better. In other words, the internet environment will be
better if most of the netizen are responsible for the information they shared.
Internet engineering can help resolve many of the system problems, but not
those information shared by the netizen all over the world. The thing we can do
is to be responsible to the works we did or the things we shared on the
internet.
Many people can learn a
lot of things through rational use of network. Nobody knows what will happen if
there is no such a rapid and convenient place which contains all the excellent
resources that can truly reflect their own values. At the same time, this problem
may make a lot of people that very sensitive and may still be the focus of peoples
talking, those opinions listed below are just me as an ordinary netizen to express
my personal views.
Works
Cited
Breeding, Marshall.
"Introduction to Resource Sharing." Library Technology Reports, 49.1
(2013): 5-11.
"Sharing is
Everything." Geospatial Today, (2012).
Lessig, Lawrence. Free
Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. New
York: Penguin, 2004.
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