Librarians Get It, says Web Review

[Library Internet Resources Co-ordinator]

At 7:42 AM -0700 7/11/97, Eric Rumsey wrote:

>Is this also true in other disciplines? Are widely-used link list sites
>managed by librarians in the humanities, social sciences, other sciences ??

When the Graduate Theological Union Library was first beginning to work
towards setting up its web pages I told our director that our goal should
be a simple one. To make our Internet presence a world class resource.

I said simple not easy.

We have gone a good ways towards doing this and will continue to improve
what we have done. In some areas we are far superiour to other libraries in
related subjects and we have many pages of subject oriented lists to other
resources on the Internet. We only have a few link pages that are in major
need of updating and these are being worked on at this time.

In the future we hope to place several databases we have created online.
Examples include a 2800+ subject database of the expertise of our faculty,
a database of English translations of apocryphal & non-canonical Jewish and
Christian texts only found in anthologies, and an address database
maintained on non-Judeo-Christian groups in North America.

For us a major problem is the lack of technical knowledge that larger sites
can draw upon so we stumble around alot looking for solutions. There are
many medium and small sized institutions like us without computer science
departments to turn to who could probably do more with making resources
available.

What is useful to us is the expertise of people on lists and newsgroups who
share their knowledge and help solve the elementary problems that can bring
us to a halt in mnay cases.

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Library Internet Resources Co-ordinator webguru at gtu.edu
(currently Gilles Poitras gpoitras at gtu.edu)
Graduate Theological Union Library
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