From the preface to the data from Project Muse which you have just read, you can understand why much of what is reported on the use of web sites is pure bumpf. In May we will be receiving an update to some of our web software which will include some tools that allow us to perform easily some good analysis on the use of our web resources. Up to now we have only been looking at our log files on an ad hoc basis and with considerable effort to winnow out non-content hits on the servers. T. This is one of the reasons we must rely upWe are only beginnning to be able to report on the use of electronicjournals and other electronic information resources on their servers by people here. We will be reporting here, in ITS Happening and elsewhere, data and analyses of the use of our electronic resources.
Some people use statistics like a drunk uses a light pole, for support rather than for illumination.
But the solid information is still in the library and will remain so in the forseeable future. I don't know. This is a reminder that no matter how good the Internet becomes as a tool for research for writers, it will never end up as the sole resource for any diligent author. If certain books smell of the library, some books in the future may make it obvious to readers that their authors never left their computer terminals. ITS, University of Toronto Library.