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Re: Website Reliability



What is even more interesting is the following quote:

"... the librarians rated only 27 percent of them (websites viewed by the
students) as suitable for academic research."

If one did the same rating for the standard public library what percentage
of the library would be considered suitable for academic research.  (could
it be a case of the pot calling the kettle black?)

The concern over the "onslaught of commercialism" has me chuckling. Probably
the same sort of concern that derides cable and broadcast television (but
not PBS)as being a vast wasteland. The main point is that capitalism and
commercials (egad!) are fueling the growth of the Internet, just as
capitalism and commercials fueled the growth of the broadcast industry
beginning in the 1920s.

Finally I find it amazing that librarians are critical of internet filtering
yet you can not find the hardcopy versions of the same material present in
the library.

Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: bj_dalton [mailto:bj_dalton@EMAIL.MSN.COM]
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 1:37 PM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: Website Reliability
>
>
> Interesting article that left me wondering:
>
> 1.  What her solution was to the commercialization of the
> web.  Restrict it?
> If yes, wouldn't that be a restriction of the freedom of
> expression that she
> is striving for?
>
> 2.  I wonder if the students whose privacy was invaded by the
> librarians and
> teacher were apprised of the invasion of the internet records
> by college
> facility.
>
> R W Dalton, CRM
> bjuplace@iname.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kurilecz, Peter" <peter.kurilecz@WOODSIDESUMMITGROUP.COM>
> To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 5:46 AM
> Subject: Website Reliability
>
>
> > Maybe reliability isn't the correct term, but the following
> article from
> the
> > NYTimes presents covers the issue of information
> reliability on the Web
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/cyber/education/19ed
ucation.html
>
>
>

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