I wanted to help them find what they need, and since I was keeping up with changes in different Internet research resources anyway, it doesn't take that much more energy to turn it into a newsletter from which many people can benefit. I am a very poor designer, so I tried to make it as simple and fast-loading as possible without embarrassing myself by trying to introduce visual geegaws. Lots of different stuff. Mostly newswires, press release wires, Web logs, computer columnists' pages. I'm lucky in that I get lots of suggestions from readers.
Original content is always good.
I do research for several clients, write books and articles, administer Web sites, etc. This is a great start in what I hope will be a series of interviews which will show how information specialists on the net think about their work, where they get their ideas, and how they select information. I still remember my shock when I learned that the Library of Congress throws books away. As John Berry was saying in Library Journal recently, we think books represent some sort of immortality. But if nobody makes a point of keeping them, even a book doesn't mean immortality.