At our very fingertips, we've got access to more than 3 billion Internet sites teeming and streaming with info on everything from aardvarks to zymurgy. We don't need no stinking libraries. Let's ask a librarian. Librarians are constantly stressing the importance of critically evaluating the quality of websites before trusting the information provided. For example, a writer can contribute material to one of these sites on ancient Rome.
Users then rate the work according to a grading system.
Eventually, one may trust the opinions of particular reviewers but for the most part this still leaves us with the problem of evaluating the evaluators. Precursors of Search Engines by JoAnne Yates. The Dewey Decimal System and its precursors provided librarians with taxonomies to organize their enormous and diverse collections. The chief difficulty is not in filing but in finding. Files today are more often electronic than paper-based, but the problems in retrieving what we have filed are much the same.