[WEB4LIB] Re: Library web site organization

[Tony Barry]

At 11:59 AM -0800 1/11/2000, Garwood, Steve wrote:
>My last diatribe - Anyone else believe that we need to perhaps stop having
>10,000 odd library websites and perhaps really come together and build ONE
>library on the Web? It's where the "patrons" of today are, but not really
>where we are.

Starting seven years ago the World Wide Web Virtual Library 
http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/database/ has been trying to do this. As it 
didn't start in the library community it has been sadly neglected by 
us.

Tony
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