The future of online information: challenges and opportunities

Abstract

Information retrieval as a concept or a technique is not generally recognized beyond the profession as a societal need or even necessarily as a useful tool. It has often been said of online that it is an expensive way of doing much faster what you could otherwise do manually in a library. I have long been perplexed by this misunderstanding of the power of online. Let me offer one possible explanation.

Citation

Summit, R.K. (1993), "The future of online information: challenges and opportunities", The Electronic Library, Vol. 11 No. 4/5, pp. 233-235. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045237