Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World (21 Jun 2004)

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Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World (21 Jun 2004)
Ms. Wittenberg's group recently finished a three-year study of research habits, including surveys of 1,233 students across the country, that concluded that electronic resources have become the main tool for information gathering, particularly among undergraduates.

'We have to respond to these new ways,' Ms. Wittenberg said, and come up with a way to make better research material available online.

That means working with commercial search engines like Google and Yahoo to make ever more digital-research materials searchable.

Undergraduates like Ms. Maxianova and her classmates are not the only ones conducting research from their computers. Faculty members also do it.

'One of the rarest things to find is a member of the faculty in the library stacks,' said Paul Duguid, an information researcher who will teach a class this fall at the University of California, Berkeley on judging the authenticity of information found on the Web.

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/21/technology/21LIBR.html?ex=1403150400&en=19bc49100fbfccba&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

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