[13453] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Reference Librarians vs. Search Engines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ilana Pollack)
Thu Aug 3 20:13:55 2000
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:29:48 +0300
From: Ilana Pollack <Rapinsk@WISEMAIL.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
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They might prefer search engines in the more obvious cases or easy ones. They will need Reference librarians for the complicated and serious questions, same as they turn to Information specialists for online searches in the more professional subjects, after they have exhausted the internet and perhaps other means.
Ilana Pollack
Ilana Pollack
Chief Librarian
Wix Library and Faculty Libraries
Weizmann Institute of Science
P.O.B. 26
Rehovot 76100
Israel
ilana.pollack@weizmann.ac.il
rapinsk@wisemail.weizmann.ac.il
phone: +972-8-9343583
fax: +972-8-9344176
>>> leungflorence@HOTMAIL.COM 08/02/00 08:51pm >>>
Hi:
Do you find library patrons preferring search engines to reference
librarians?
Flo Leung
Queens Public Library
New York
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