Organizing Web Information

[Doran, Kelly]

>> "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

It's not just the self-published material (read: personal web pages).
As a document delivery specialist in a corporate library, I've handled
 requests for brochures and product information cited in 20-year-old
papers. Usually (if I'm lucky) the company that produces the information
archives a copy. Now this information is moving to the web, and archive
copies may disappear.

My concerns are not so much with finding current information as finding
that info three years from now when one of our scientists asks for it.
Pity the ILL librarian in 2007 who gets a request for a paper from an
electronic
journal that went out of business in 1995!

Kelly Doran     dorank at wdni.com
Weyerhaeuser Technical Information Services