In fact, librarians can be said to bring a unique perspective to the World Wide Web. Other Web users do depend on librarians to help organize the information on the World Wide Web. What I want to talk about now is how your experience as a librarian will carry over into your use of the World Wide Web and should, in fact, stand you in good stead. Also, as with serials, you will need to pay attention to how recently any given Web page has been updated.
Librarians know all about how to use the table of contents of any magazine.
There are thousands of microfiche cards at my branch. There are millions of Web pages. Bookmarks , as we all know, save your place when you are doing research at the library and you use the bookmark to hold your place in the reference book until you can get it to the photocopier. Web bookmarks function both like the piece of paper which you stuck in the reference book on the way to the photocopier and like the librarian's good friend, the rolodex, which lists frequently needed addresses and telephone numbers. There are two classes of search tools both at my branch and on the World Wide Web.