Student use of library web services - was: Library web site organization

[Tony Barry]

At 10:42 AM -0800 1/11/2000, Andrew K. Pace wrote:
>A lot of us have created browsable subjects for electronic 
>resources, now we are talking about creating them for our web 
>pages...have we forgotten the catalog?  Isn't there a chance here 
>for a technical apologia for LCSH?  The online catalog made our 
>holdings
>infinitely more searchable, it made

I'm picking up anecdotal comment from teaching academics (from two 
universities) that, much to their chagrin, their students are 
ignoring ALL library services and relying on the big internet search 
engines for research.

Has anybody see anything written on this or have comments?

I've also got general comments the library subject gateways to the 
web are being ignored for the same reason.

Tony
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