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Source: San Jose Mercury News "Radical Change in Libraries"
From the article, "The shift in how information is collected and used brings opportunities and challenges to researchers and librarians." Also, "If people are helping themselves to this stuff online, I don't know if they are getting what they really are after, or whether they are willing to just take what's there,'' said Santa Clara University's [George] Carlson. He worries that online searchers aren't seeing the explanations and disclaimers that go with the spreadsheets of statistics, the kind of thing librarians point out to in-person patrons. And although an online search makes it easier to pinpoint information, it arrives on the screen shorn of the context it would have in a larger report or book. The better-targeted a query is, the less likely the searcher is to have the serendipitous experience of finding more than he was seeking. That's common with a book or paper document, where related information surrounds the data, said Lance Strate, an associate professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University and president of the Media Ecology Association."
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