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    • LIS 691 The Virtual Library - Crises and Controversies
    Week Six: End-User Searching - Professional Doom as Popular Democracy ?

    June 17, 1999 Debate Topic:

    "Ever improving end-user search engines are driving reference librarians to extinction - and a good thing too, since the demise of such intermediaries represents a massive democratization in information access."

    Readings:

    Heckart, Ronald "Machine Help and Human Help in the Emerging Digital Library." College and Research Libraries 59.3 (1998) 250-259.

    Ewing, Keith and Robert Hauptman "Is Traditional Reference Service Obsolete ?" Journal of Academic Librarianship 21 (1995) 3-6

    LaGuardia, Cheryl "Desk Set Revisited: Reference Librarians, Reality and Research Systems' Design" Journal of Academic Librarianship 21 (1995) 7-9

    Lewis, David, "Traditional Reference is Dead, Now Let's Move on to Important Questions" Journal of Academic Librarianship 21 (1995) 10-12

    Last revised: June 2, 1999
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