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Information Technologies
for Diplomatic Activities
by Stefano Baldi | | |
 Towards a paperless world ?
Will the Net replace libraries?
While the Net is disorganized, libraries are organized. Alongside search engines that look for keywords
in the text of a Webpage
(such as
Altavista
or
Hotbot
), a service invaluable in reserch others, using directories such as
Yahoo
, are reinventing
versions of the standard, proven classification schemes that libraries have always used. Some people
are even adopting the
Dewey system to organize Web sites (see the Expanding Universe site for example). Most noticeably, the
Net doesn't use
standardized subject headings, an important tool for accessing information in libraries. Moreover, the
whole Net cannot be
accessed from within a library, but an entire library can't be accessed from the Net.
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