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Now available from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library
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Library Trends, 52(2), Fall 2003
"Organizing the Internet" edited by Andrew G. Torok

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The theme of "Organizing the Internet" brings to mind the late 1950s
folk-rock singer Jimmie Rodgers’s song titled "The World I Used to Know."
A great many developments have transpired in the world of information
science since the seminal works of S. C. Bradford, Claude Shannon,
Vannevar Bush, and numerous other pioneers. To those of us who have been
in the information science field for several decades, the peek-a-boo
devices such as Termatrex, Mortimer Taube’s Uniterm cards, and discussion
of pre- and postcoordinate indexing have given way to the world of
browsers, HTML, XML, and numerous other ways of coding text and
multimedia. The Internet and the World Wide Web have had a profound impact
on how we go about storing and retrieving information. Document integrity
has become transient, with little assurance that the location, existence,
or even the content of a publication will be the same tomorrow as even a
few minutes ago. We are often hard-pressed to determine if the failure to
retrieve a publication is one associated with network infrastructure or
the publisher. The dream of universal bibliographic control seems quite
remote. By being able to bypass traditional publication channels, anyone
can publish virtually at will. The situation becomes more chaotic when we
consider the increasing redundancy of knowledge and the rampant
proliferation of misinformation and disinformation, to say nothing of
social concerns with pornography, copyright violations, and other flagrant
obtrusions into personal rights. Nevertheless, it behooves the information
worker and the information user to make some sense of order if good
information is to remain the basis of learning and decision making, and if
documents are to continue as an archive of human knowledge.

--From the Introduction by Andrew G. Torok

Articles and Authors Include:

"World Libraries on the Information Superhighway: Internet-based Library
Services," John Carlo Bertot

"Gateways to the Internet: Finding Quality Information on the Internet,"
Adrienne Franco

"Access in a Networked World: Scholars Portal in Context," Jerry D.
Campbell

"Government Information on the Internet," Greg R. Notess

"Creating the Front Door to Government: A Case Study of the Firstgov
Portal," Patricia Diamond Fletcher

"The Invisible Web: Uncovering Sources Search Engines Can’t See," Chris
Sherman and Gary Price

"Web Search: Emerging Patterns," Amanda Spink

"Copyright Law and Organizing the Internet," Rebecca P. Butler

"A Survey of Metadata Research for Organizing the Web," Jane L. Hunter

"Can Document-genre Metadata Improve Information Access to Large Digital
Collections?" Kevin Crowston and Barbara H. Kwasnik

"Web-based Organizational Tools and Techniques in Support of Learning,"
Don E. Descy

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