Quotation update and thank you

Thanks to Stephen Abram and Robert Eiffert for finding the quotation I mentioned in my last post!

“The net is like a huge vandalized library. Someone has destroyed the catalog and removed the front matter, indexes, etc. from hundreds of thousands of books and torn and scattered what remains? “Surfing” is the process of sifting through this disorganized mess in the hope of coming across some useful fragments of text and images that can be related to other fragments. The net is even worse than a vandalized library because thousands of additional unorganized fragments are added daily by the myriad of cranks, sages, and persons with time on their hands who launch unfiltered messages into cyberspace.”

Michael Gorman, "The Corruption of Cataloging"- Library Journal 120 (15 September, 1995):34 They also mentioned the site Books on the Floor which mentions some interesting metaphors and also some interesting discussion from Web4Lib. I really am going to have to start searching the Web4Lib archive more often. They seem to have most of the answers to questions I ask! A number of you have also been most generous in supplying me with suggestions for my presentation on "Internet Searching". You helped show me that I was on the right track and gave me some excellent ideas for improving my presentation. Thank-you.