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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1999
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED437957 |
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- The Amazing Internet Challenge: How Leading Projects Use Library Skills To Organize the Web. Wells, Amy Tracy Calcari, Susan Koplow, Travis Access to Information Classification Electronic Libraries Evaluation Criteria Information Services Library Collections Library Funding Library Material Selection Users (Information) World Wide Web This book describes how the following 12 virtual libraries use library skills to organize Internet resources: Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC); Argus Clearinghouse; Blue Web'n; BUBL Information Service; Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL); INFOMINE; Internet Public Library (IPL); Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII); Mathematics Archives; Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI); Scout Report Signpost; and Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG). Each chapter follows the same basic outline: (1) responsible persons; (2) mission statement; (3) funding source(s), as well as project budgets; (4) target audience and secondary audience; (5) description of the collection; (6) selection criteria and evaluation process of resources; (7) mechanics of production, including software and hardware; (8) taxonomy or classification used and any modifications; (9) strengths of the project; (10) weaknesses of the project; (11) time frames for the project; (12) future goals of the project; and (13) a vision statement concerning the future of resource location and description. Includes subject and alphabetical indexes of World Wide Web sites. (MES)