The following people from the College of Charleston Library discussed how the Internet is being used in academic libraries. Mr. Mike Phillips talked about the World Wide Web and how is applies to academic libraries.
All mechanisms go about searching differently.
Some will search on the contents of the document itself, while others may search on headers, titles, indexes, or directories. The trend on the web seems to be the same as far as librarians and organization of resources are concerned. Since gopher does not use URLs, functionality is lost. A lot of people do not have the resources for accessing the web. It allows hypertext web access without graphics and will work on dumb terminals.