Problems with Organizing Web Resources

The majority of Web resources are like the print ephemera that papers the earth � advertising flyers under windshield wipers, sales catalogs filling mailboxes, milk and cereal cartons filling landfills.

Web resources are not static, information in them can change (and frequently does), and addresses are not stable.

Libraries do not own or maintain the resources for which they have contracted access rights, but search engines cannot provide access to such resources.

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Because so much is ephemera, the challenge of organizing is not nearly so great as some would have us believe.

According to OCLC�s latest annual review of the WWW (Oct. 16, 2000), public web sites now constitute 41 percent of the web. They note that private sites have exhibited steady growth relative to public sites in the past few years.

Problems with Organizing Web Resources

The majority of Web resources are like the print ephemera that papers the earth � advertising flyers under windshield wipers, sales catalogs filling mailboxes, milk and cereal cartons filling landfills.

Web resources are not static, information in them can change (and frequently does), and addresses are not stable.

Libraries do not own or maintain the resources for which they have contracted access rights, but search engines cannot provide access to such resources.