Tell us what you think, offer suggestions. I'm a bookseller and, although the Internet has revolutionized my profession, I am amazed at the assumptions people make about technology's capabilities. Librarians have come to believe any fact can be found on the Internet. But, like a piece of Swiss cheese, the Internet is riddled with holes. Library budgets have been slashed and the Internet is offered as the low-cost saviour.
Stories abound about finding mountains of information on any topic within minutes of logging on.
However, the Internet is also clogged with dated info, misleading info, false info, and downright off the wall info. And Jeeves couldn't help you separate the wheat from the chafe even if you asked him. I was trying to find Sheila Copps' email address once. And I had to use a little Boolean logic of my own to unlock the secret. I'm saddened to hear of Libraries ditching books that haven't been checked out in the past year or two.