[Web4lib] RE: library automation vendors

[Matthew J. Dovey]

Not everyone on this list would necessarily have access to such
resources.

However, the reason I searched on the web was because I was looking for
something I had first seen on the web 6 years ago - the web is the
obvious place to look for something previously seen on the web.

What I found wasn't the article itself but various pages linking to it -
or rather linking to a 404 where it used to be, and the Internet Archive
is the natural place to look for missing web pages.

I didn't think of looking in a licensed database for something first
seen on the web nor for a missing web page - I suspect that I'm not
abnormal in this...

However, I do agree with the underlying sentiment that the web is not
the end all and be all of information sources...

Matthew 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of 
> d.fleishman at att.net
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:33 PM
> To: Lars Aronsson; web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] RE: library automation vendors
> 
> Actually, Searcher is indexed in several databases that most 
> libraries should have access to:
> 
> from 01/01/1998 to present in ProQuest Research Library 
> from 05/01/1993 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP 
> from 07/01/1996 to present in Academic Search Premier and 
> MasterFILE Premier 
> 
> 
> As librarians, shouldn't we be using our licensed databases 
> rather than attempting to find everything on the web?
> 
> Dorothy Fleishman
> Reference Librarian
> Paramus Public Library
> d.fleishman at att.net
> 
> -------------- Original message from Lars Aronsson 
> <lars at aronsson.se>: -------------- 
> 
> 
> > Matthew J. Dovey wrote: 
> > 
> > > I had to delve into the Internet Archive to find it - but 
> it might be 
> > > that Steve Coffman's then controversial article of 1999 might be 
> > > beginning to become reality: 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20001214191900/http://www.infotoday
> .com/searcher/mar9 
> > 9/coffman.htm 
> > 
> > Thanks for bringing the link up. It is sad (and ironic?) that the 
> > article can no longer be FOUND on the website of SEARCHER 
> > Magazine, and we are lucky to have the Internet Archive. 
> > 
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