Students use of search engines -Reply

[C. W. Tazewell]

Hi, You-all,
     I fully and wholeheartedly agree with Gail Wanner.  We should not 
*try* to adapt students and the public to the Internet; we should adapt
the Internet to them.  When students generally, and the general public,
start using the Internet with the "Network Computer" Internet Appliance,
they will want it to be easy and convenient using a TV remote - point
and press.
     The professional librarians and information specialists will be
the "searchers" and reference experts.
     You may like to check my page, "The Internet in the Year 2000."
          http://users.visi.net/~cwt/inet2000.html
     Sm:)es,
                Bill. 
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On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Gail Wanner wrote:

> Instead of trying to convince students (and others) that they need to
> learn the complexities of web searching, perhaps we should be trying to
> improve the searching so that people are successful in their searches
> without special training?  Most people find information in the phone book
> without needing to be trained & they expect the web (and library catalogs)
> to be basically the same.   
>