[13114] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: PACS-L is back!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Kessler)
Fri Mar 3 20:02:29 2000
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:34:07 -0800
From: Jack Kessler <kessler@WELL.COM>
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Welcome back, PACS-L!: there is plenty to talk about here -- much
that I need to know myself, and much need for library community
discussion and contribution -- "information overload" has
_in_creased since PACS-L began, despite best efforts by many
here, and now the Nets are all going commercial...
I would like to know, for example, whether http://www.about.com
is an information service model which has any successful
recent parallels within the library community?
I know about email reference, and the vast logistical problems --
big inboxes -- which _that_ has caused in many places. But there
also are successful services like "Boalt Express" at UC Berkeley,
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/services/bex.html
and now CERDOC at the Bibliothèque Cujas,
http://www-cujas.univ-paris1.fr/
which offer library research / document delivery -- increasingly
online / Web reliant -- to professional user communities.
Does anyone know of a list of same / similar? Any thoughts about
whether this is "online reference service", and whether that is
viable, scalable, cost - effective in the latest online climate?
And is this something for professionals only -- $ -- or can it
work now for general - campus, school, even public libraries?
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us
ps. Nice list, eds. --
> *Managing electronic information
> -Organizing access through Web gateways
> -Instructing remote users
> -Cataloging
> -Licensing
> -Resource sharing
> *Concerns about physical access
> -Security
> -Internet filtering
> -Adaptive technology
> *New roles for the library and/or librarian
> *Redesigning library processes to incorporate technology
> *Rethinking traditional models of service
