I, too, found it interesting that the link provided to the LAT did not
perform as advertised. I had to run two searches in the LAT "find" to
locate the article. I first had to discern whether the article would
have fallen into the "Hunter" category or the "Archives" category. Luck
for me the original post had the date or I would have had to run several
searches, illustrating why the last line of the article is quite
prophetic (to keep people from wondering what it is, here it is:
"Quint, though, remains optimistic: "Once people who need good
information realize the poor quality of information they're getting
versus the quality of information they could get," she said, "the
information professional will rise again." " LAT 12/17/97).
Karl T. Gruben, Librarian Phones & Email
Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P. 713-758-2679 (voice)
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Houston, TX 77002-6760 kgruben@velaw.com
> ----------
> From: Joyce Manna Janto[SMTP:janto@uofrlaw.richmond.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 1:10 PM
> To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Re: "Search Pros Out of Work?"
>
> I mean no offense to the original poster, but I find it highly ironic
> that the link provided did not work. In order to find this article
> we had to seach on Lexis.
>
> To me this illustrates why we "search pros" will never be out of
> work. Links appear and disappear in the blink of an eye. To say
> nothing of how easy it is to make a small mistake when typing a long
> and complicated URL.
>
>
> > "Search Pros May Need to Search For a New Line of Work" says the
> > headline of Troy Corley's article in the Monday, December 15th, 1997
> > "Los Angeles Times." The article states that the Internet is
> turning
> > the "venerable profession [librarians] upside down."
> >
> > I am curious to find out how Law-Lib list members respond to this
> > article. It's online at:
> >
> >
> http://www.latimes.com/sbin/my_iarecord.pl?NS-doc-path=/httpd/docs/HOM
> E/
> >
> COMMUN/NEWS/ZONE15A/t00011345366.html&NS-doc-offset=0&NS-collection=Da
> il
> > yNews&NS-search-set=/var/tmp/3497f/aaaa004jb97f316&
> >
> > William Jack
> > Law Library
> > Dorsey & Whitney LLP
> > 220 South Sixth Street
> > Minneapolis, MN 55402
>
> Joyce Manna Janto
> Deputy Director of the Law Library
> janto@uofrlaw.richmond.edu
> 804/289-8223
>
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