“It was around the time I was getting my master’s that you had a broader perspective that there was this interdisciplinary field, not limited to library science, that could be both an area for research but then also an informing practice,” Smith said. Smith said the idea of information science as a discipline separate from library sciences became relevant in the 1960s. The school added the information science program around the time Professor and Executive Associate Dean Linda C. The program is pervasive and constantly changing to meet the needs of present-day society, which is why the school now includes the study of information science. The principal values of library science include information organization, access, use and preservation. They are proud members of a larger project encompassing various iSchools across the country.Īccording to the school’s website is, an iSchool is “a community of schools interested in the relationship between information, technology and people, and committed to increasing the visibility of the field of library and information science.” The iSchool is currently home to more than 700 graduate students studying either library sciences or information management. News and World Report, since the publication has started polling. The graduate program has consistently been ranked No. News and World Report have ranked the University’s School of Information Science, or iSchool, as No. Just the Buzz-free versions.The 2017 U.S. But don’t worry, I’ll still stick with Gmail and Reader. It seems to have worked well for me, and unless Buzz can live on like some sort of undead social-networking zombie nightmare, I don’t think I’ll be going back.īetter luck next time, Google.
If you’d like to, you can use the same instructions I did at this link. I don’t have time to read things twice, Google, so get it straight.įinally, after enough fiddling, I realized that settings could not overcome Buzz’s shortfalls, and decided to remove myself from Buzz’s vice. The problem was that Buzz did a poor job of knowing what was read and what wasn’t, and I would end up seeing articles in my Buzz that I’d already read in Reader, and vice-versa. Buzz also tried to integrate with Google Reader (another service I use frequently and am quite familiar with – even like!). Don’t trick me into clicking over because it looks like an email. I know Buzz is there, and will click on it when I feel like it. I live and die by my inbox, and don’t appreciate things popping in there that are not emails. Touted as a “feature” (as so many of these things often are) new Buzzes and comments would appear in my inbox like new emails. I wrote it! If Buzz could pull in my entire Twitter timeline, including messages, and let me respond from within my GMail inbox, then we’d be talking. In fact, that’s about the last thing that I want. Buzz pulled my own tweets into Buzz, and that was it.
Before you shout me down with the fact that Buzz does, in fact, integrate with Twitter, my problem is that it’s a one-way street. Give me a choice, Google, don’t just throw me into something out of the blue. I’m all for building a reader-base, but not like this. With Buzz’s auto-share functionality, I’m already following about 30 people (only 10 of which would I want to), and they’re automatically following me. This means sharing only what I write, and sharing it only when I want to share it. The reason I blog and tweet, as opposed to joining Facebook, is that I prefer to do social media on my own terms. Let me give you a little run-down about why Buzz bugged me out. Where’d that come from? Had Google adopted Apple-like security tactics?Īnd now – one week later – I’ve removed Buzz from my life and will not go back unless major changes take place. One day I heard a rumor about a new entrant into the social networking fray from Google, the next day there’s a Buzz link in my inbox. Usually, I’m pretty good at these sorts of things, tracking rumors, discussing potential functionality and impacts, and having a pretty good idea of how something might work before it’s released. I have to admit, Buzz came in a little under my radar. As you have probably heard by now, Google’s latest product is an entrant into the social media arena: Buzz.