Organizing Web Information

[Kris Ecklund]

(Reply to Marc below was submitted under a now-defunct email address 
which I can't seem to get unsubscribed from <web4lib> yet. --Kris)


> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:19:11 -0700
> From: Marc Salomon <marc at ckm.ucsf.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Re: Organizing Web Information

> With the advent of desktop publishing over the past 13 years (recall
that laser > printers were barely accessible to mortals prior to 1982)
before the explosion > in accessibility to the internet, the traditional
library model has not been > able to document the proliferation of
self-published work.  If the paper > library hasn't had to deal with this
kind of publication as a peer of the book, > then why should the digital
library? > >

 -marc ... Somewhere this year some one is preparing an exhibit of
"ephemera of the 1960's counterculture":  Scanning self-published pages
produced on a pre-Xeroxraphy Gestettner machine (equivalent in economic
accessibility to a high-quality laser printer); manipulating scanned
copies of fin de siecle-style poster cards; evaluating the impact,
pre-18-yr-old vote, of the famed 1970 distribution of the essay "Student
as Nigger."  

All of which is Web-able only because some one hung onto it and remembered
that they had.  With any luck the "memory" was in the records of an
archivist or special collections-type person.  "Traditional" library 
cataloging and acquisition methods certainly have not provided for 
self-published or otherwise ephemeral materials.  Who is "collecting" 
unique or startling or influential WWW pages for the 25-year Network News 
Anniversary shows?


Kris Ecklund,Librarian 
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California State University, Northridge kristin.ecklund at csun.edu
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