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From Salon.com: The author of a new book talks about the secret lives of America’s favorite — and endangered — disciplinarians. Behold the stereotypical librarian, with her cat’s-eye glasses, bun and pantyhose — a creature whose desexualized persona and desire for us to be quiet has fueled generations of wild sexual fantasies. But [...] “To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads.” - Jon Bing, Professor of Information Technology Law, University of Oslo, Norway From Post Carbon Institute: How secure is our civilization’s accumulated knowledge? It is a question that, in a fundamental sense, transcends many life-and-death concerns (threats of sickness, natural disaster, or military invasion) that prompt us collectively to spend fortunes on insurance, health care, and weaponry. We know that we each individually will die, though we are willing [...] Presented by Jennifer McNenly and Matthew Frederick, Although this case study describes a legal environment, the learning can be applied to any environment. Life before the FindIt! Portal: thousands of structured and unstructured documents Step 1: Defining the Search Scopes – created four basic scopes: people, precedents and research, firm information, [...] |
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