[WEB4LIB] Re: "books on the floor" metaphore

[Karen Johnson]

Hanan et al,

Here's one that appeared in someone's signature:


Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled
piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly."  -- Roger Ebert


Karen J.

At 09:40 PM 12/09/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>Hanan, I included the quote in the Libraries FAQ,
>http://www.geocities.com/awilson57/sect8.htm , and I have also tried to
>track down the author:
>
>According to Copernicus http://www.copernicus.win-uk.net/quotes.htm :
>
>"It's like being in a library where someone has scattered all the books on
>the floor, attached them together with threads and you are in the dark."
>MorningSide, CBC Radio, May 1995
>
>
>But then again it may be the ALA:
>http://wings.buffalo.edu/nursing/dl/distedu4.htm
>
>Or Patrick Casey (Associated Press, Oklahoma City):
>http://www.sfdrs.ch/linkpage/suche/  &
>http://ajr.newslink.org/web/intro.html
>
>Or Anonymous: http://www.gananda.k12.ny.us/library/mshslibrary/LIBQTE1.HTM
>
>> On the opening page, I want to write : "The internet is the biggest
>library in
>> the world with all the books on the floor".
>>
>> Does anyone know to whom can I credit this saying to ?
>
>
>
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