LINKS: | - When a Search Engine Isn't Enough, Call a Librarian
Date: 2004-02-05 Source: The New York Times
With a widespread public expectation that answers can be found almost instantly by typing a few words into an Internet search engine, librarians increasingly find themselves on the sidelines in the question-answering business. So they are slowly warming to the idea that they must educate the public about ways to sort through the mountain of available information.
[Open In New Window] - What's New In Information Research
Date: 2003-05-27 Source: SearchDay
What's going on in the field of information science? A free, online journal offers access to some of the highest-quality research from information scholars from around the world.
[Open In New Window] - Has Google Won?
Date: 2003-01-23 Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
A librarian says students have more data than they know what to do with.
[Open In New Window] - Librarianship after Google
Date: 2002-09-18 Source: American Libraries
It seems inevitable that Google, and its successors, will profoundly affect search practice, and, in a smaller way, librarianship. Perhaps the more important question is how we might be able to affect them.
[Open In New Window] - Search Soirees
Date: 2002-01-01 Source: Online
We must contact the search engines, and stay in contact with them, urging them to both keep and improve their advanced search features so that the Net remains viable for professional researchers.
[Open In New Window] - The Revenge of the Library Scientist
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Date: 2000-11-01 Source: Online
Its time for librarians to stand up and say "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" Can librarians play a strong role in AltaVista, Yahoo!, About, Looksmart, EoExchange, and many more? Hell yes. But just remember, fortune favors the cocky.
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