This track focuses on the standards, technologies and tools that further develop, enable, refine and promote Web usage in libraries. Our Internet professionals cover topics relating to search engines, portals, Web browsers, standards, metadata, and much more. Whether they are called search engines, portals or gateways, the larger the Internet becomes, the less important size is to a portals success. What matters is the quality content, relevant partnerships and personalization.
Customized convenience is now the name of the game.
This session looks at how the different search engines are designed, how they select sites and how many are included, how frequently they are updated, what search refinement techniques they use, and how they measure up with respect to content and customization. With the new generation of Web browsers there are many enhanced features they incorporate. This session focuses on those features of interest to information professionals, especially with respect to facilitating information retrieval from the Web. In recent years, the growth of the Web has dramatically increased the need for good multi-disciplinary search tools. Therefore, a simple, cheap and efficient procedure for authoring towards the two output media would be welcome.