[Sighfis-l] RE: Sighfis-l digest, Vol 1 #56 - 2 msgs

[sangeeta deokattey]

Dear Beth,

Your Professors are right. Even today, finding authoritative, quality 
information on the Web is not easy. You end up wasting a lot of your 
valuable time. The reason being, information on the Web is not organized in 
a systematic manner as is done in any library. There are no uniform 
standards for organization and retrieval of information. According to a 
recent survey, only 20% of the currently available information on the Web is 
accessible to us. This is because of inherent problems in almost all the 
search engines. I am sure you must be aware that the WWW Consortium is 
actively encouraging the use of library and information science methods for 
organizing the information on the web. A lot of research projects are 
currently on, using the UDC, DDC schemes and other indexing systems.

I am a library and information science professional from India and I have 
been in this field for almost 25 years now. I feel that this is the best 
time for professionals like us, who, I am sure will be very much more in 
demand than before, provided we stay abreast of the latest developments in 
our field. Wishing you all the best!

Mrs. S.C. Deokattey


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>Date: Sat,  7 Feb 2004 12:01:03 -0500 (EST)
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>    1. Re: Internet Invasion! (Anthony Debons)
>    2. AM04 HFIS panel proposals (Shawne Miksa)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:00:33 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
>From: Anthony Debons <adebons at mail.sis.pitt.edu>
>To: Elizabeth Michelle Blood <as2762 at wayne.edu>
>Cc: sighfis-l at asis.org
>Subject: Re: [Sighfis-l] Internet Invasion!
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>I don't think the library, and the professionals who serve it, will ever
>be extinct.What I do believe that the nature of the services will change
>significanly.
>
>Anthony Debons,PhD
>Professor Emeritus
>School of Information Sciences
>University of Pittsburgh
>email:adebons at mail.sis.pitt.edu
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>On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Elizabeth Michelle Blood wrote:
>
> > I am in the process of obtaining my library science degree,
> > and lately a hot topic of conversation in my classes has been
> > the effect that the creation of the Internet has had on
> > libraries.
> > My professors claim that the creation of the Internet has
> > actually increased the need for librarians because we are
> > capable of accessing even more information now... However, I
> > am beginning to think that perhaps we are underestimating the
> > competency of the general public. It seems that most people
> > are finding the information that they need without even
> > stepping into a library.
> > Am I earning a degree for a profession that will soon be
> > extinct???
> > Beth
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>Message: 2
>Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:29:30 -0600
>From: "Shawne Miksa" <SMiksa at unt.edu>
>To: <sighfis-l at asis.org>
>Subject: [Sighfis-l] AM04 HFIS panel proposals
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>Greetings everyone,
>
>If you put in a panel proposal under HFIS, or co-sponsored by HFIS, would =
>love it if you could please send me the final panel proposal that you =
>submitted to ASIS&T, many pleases and thank you's.  Just want an idea of =
>the number and range of panels, etc.=20
>
>gracias,
>S.Miksa
>SIG/HFIS Chair =20
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>Shawne D. Miksa, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor
>School of Library and Information Sciences
>University of North Texas
>office 940-565-3560
>fax 940-565-3101
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