Management practice now involves teaching graduate students about document structure, metadata, classification schema, and critical searching. We must become critical consumers of electronic information. With regard to the use of metadata, Grycz noted that there must be deep semantic consistency build on mutually-intelligible vocabulary, thesauri, and organizational structures. We also need to integrate human intelligence into the automated searching algorithms. Summarizing a guided tour of the Internet Scholarship, Grycz observed that it is a mixed bag of experimentation.
Opportunities appear where fragmentation exists and user interaction can occur.
Lynn Sipe, Director of Information Resources and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, University of Southern California, stressed the need to develop an awareness that our work always takes place in a larger context. We must be keenly aware of where Collection Development fits in the organization's priorities. We must create realistic expectations of what is possible or probable, and affect organizational outcomes and priorities. We must consider our coping abilities in times of frustration. Laura Fuderer, Laura discussed subject homepages at the University of Notre Dame.