[264] in Information Retrieval
Lunchtime talk tomorrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naomi B. Schmidt)
Thu Oct 20 12:57:24 1994
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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 12:56:23 EDT
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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 94 12:57:59
From: mwood@MIT.EDU (Mathilde Wood)
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Subject: CCS lunch seminar, Friday, October 21, 1994
A friendly reminder that you are invited to attend the following
seminar:
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Center for Coordination Science
Friday Lunch Seminar
E40-170 (First Floor Conference Room)
12:10 PM to 1:30 PM
(Bring your lunch)
Friday, October 21, 1994
"I AM AN INFORMATION WAITRESS":
Bringing Order to the New Digital Libraries
by
Kate Ehrlich, Lotus Development Corporation
and
Debra Cash, New Century Enterprises
Abstract
Digital libraries, it is said, will make the roles of librarians
obsolete. Since any individual with the proper equipment will be able to
pick and choose from among the wisdom of the world's library collections
as well as send and receive electronic messages -- and even electronic
help -- from experts anywhere on the globe, why would it be necessary to
have any human intermediary between a researcher and the materials that
researcher seeks? Are intermediaries anything more than necessary
crutches on the pathway to ultimate information self-reliance? By
comparing the uses of a digital library in two corporate sites, we have
been able to identify a number of issues that indicate that the
persistence of human mediation for library searches is more than a relic
of the paper and card-catalog past. Whether the material being searched
and used is a traditional periodical, a CD-ROM database, a remote
electronic archive, or a multimedia hypertext file, human intermediaries
help not only locate but qualify and make sense of the materials at
hand. Our investigations suggest that we disregard the contributions of
these people at our own risk.
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