In message <[log in to unmask]> on Fri, 30 Mar 2001,
Liz Lewis <[log in to unmask]> wrote
>
>Has anyone seen the bill-board advertisement for
>Hewlett-Packard, with the slogan "What the internet needs
>is old-fashioned librarians"? Despite the predictable use
>of stereotype, it seems to me to be a very welcome
>acknowledgement of the value of core librarianship skills
>in the digital age!
I'm intrigued by the accompanying text:
She's working to create a standard for labeling and cataloging
information online - including all 2.7 billion web pages - a
virtual Dewey Decimal system, if you will. So you can spend less
time looking for, and more time using, the information you need.
Does this mean that H-P are working on a classification scheme,
thesaurus or cataloguing rules for Internet material? Do they know that
other people have also done some work on these lines? What exactly are
they selling?
Leonard Will
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