Role of librarians

[The Big Glee Bopper]

On Wed, 18 Oct 1995 weibel at oclc.org wrote:

> Many resources will be dynamic, and the description of such resources
> must account for this.  On the other hand, there must be means to fix
> the record in a permanent way... scholarship cannot proceed without a
> stable (and citable)  intellectual record.  My colleague had occasion
> to cite Tim Berners-Lee's CERN papers on the Web in a journal article
> he published.  Three months later, in checking the galleys, he found
> that the URL no longer worked.  This is what comes of leaving the
> functions of the library to the net.

Sounds nice, but if you can immediately use Lycos, which I have, and find 
the following in 3 seconds, you have to ask urlself if the paper actually 
needed a url given that it's in the internet??

Remember we already agreed that the real content of the internet is 
people. Didn't OCLC fund me to work on this problem?? Maybe next time.

-- Confused as usual, Thom

Outline: Tim Berners-Lee Before you mail me Other material

   Abstract: Tim Berners-Lee Bio A graduate of Oxford University,
   England, Tim is with the Laboratory for Computer Science ( LCS )at the
   Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ). He directs the W3
   Consortium which coordinates W3 development. With a background of
   system design in real-time communications and text processing software
   development, in 1989 he created the World Wide Web , an internet-based
   hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. while working at
   CERN , the European Particle ... Before coming to CERN, Tim was a
   founding director of Image Computer Systems, and before that a
   principal engineer
   http://www.w3.org./hypertext/WWW/People/Berners-Lee-Bio.html (4k)