[WEB4LIB] Re: Welcome to the Schoogle Era

[Jennifer Heise]

Tiffini Travis wrote:

> Yes seems as if there are two schools of thought on the 
> matter- the commercial user and the educational user- i 
> doubt the commercial user will be searching for scholarly 
> information that often 

Well, don't bet on it. I'm working with a group of amateur scholars in 
my organization, and they find it incredibly frustrating to be tied to 
the limitations of their local libraries, assuming they haven't just 
given up on their local libraries because there isn't enough scholarly 
stuff there. There's also a problem with interdisciplinary stuff, even 
in the humanities-- it's not indexed well and a lot of it falls through 
the cracks, so you hear about it via google search or an internet 
mailing list, rather than being able to find it through appropriate 
indexing, even if you are a scholar.

Yeah, I'm a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism... ;)
-- Jenne Heise


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