[301] in Information Retrieval
DISCUSSION TOPIC: What is the online equivalent to the MEH?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Owens)
Wed Apr 17 10:56:42 1996
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:56:03 EDT
From: Tom Owens <owens@MIT.EDU>
Libraries have traditionally stocked reference tools such as the
Modern English Usage Handbook, Style Guides, Lists of Mathematical
Tables, Dictionaries, etc. On the other hand, Libraries have never
suggested that if you bring your term paper in, they'll edit it for
grammar.
I'd like this list's thoughts on what the electronic cognate of such
reference tools might be. Should Libraries only concern themselves
with online versions of, say, the _Modern English Handbook_ or would
it be correct for online libraries to _also_ offer grammar checkers.
Would the online cognate of a handbook of math tables be a calculator
program? Are grammar checkers and calculators not reference tools at
all but services more properly left for IS folk?
Any thoughts?
--
Tom Owens
MIT Library Systems Office
owens@mit.edu
617-253-1618 voice 617-253-8894 fax
