Now imagine having to pay commercial finding services per access. Creating and preserving a shared, public domain Internet finding tool that can help us to use the new Information Commons is not something we as librarians, information professionals and academics should outsource or lease. This is a project that is within our means to create and make thrive. Joining in the building of such a finding tool will be one of the more important means over the next few decades of preserving and making accessible the electronic Information Commons in academia. Millions of Internet resources are out there and of worth to our patrons and colleagues.
Internet growth remains rapid.
Our site and our people use to be able to keep up a couple of years ago. Perhaps if we just had more time. My access to systems help is very limited. Some of these thoughts occurred to us seven years ago. We realized that high quality and comprehensive Library based Internet finding tools could not possibly scale into the future unless librarians, on a reasonably large scale, start working together.