The Library and Information Professional’s Guide to the Internet

It is impossible to get away from the Internet these days. Everyone is writing and/or talking about it, although a cynical observer might suggest that the number of people who talk about the Internet does not correlate with those who actually use it. Certainly, many people who attempt to surf the Net retreat in disappointed frustration at the complexity of it, at the huge amount of time it takes to access information and often also at the vast quantity of poor quality information. The anarchic nature of the Internet may be psychologically attractive to some people but not to all,...