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Advances In Search Engine Technology And Their Impacts On Libraries
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Libraries see themselves as central information providers for their clientele, at universities or research institutions with the development of the World Wide Web, the “information search†has grown to be a significant business sector of a global, competitive and commercial market. Powerful players have entered this market, such as commercial internet search engines, information portals, multinational publishers and online content integrators. If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet. Keywords: library, information search, globalization, information portals
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION:With today’s instant anywhere-anytime access to Google,
Bing and Wolfram Alpha, where searching for information takes a few
micro seconds via an internet connected device, some people regard
physical libraries as a quaint relics of a forgotten age. Looking at the
practice of today’s digital library portals we get the impression that
the internet is almost non-existent in the academic resource discovery
environment. What we find are online librar ... Continue reading---
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION:With today’s instant anywhere-anytime access to Google,
Bing and Wolfram Alpha, where searching for information takes a few
micro seconds via an internet connected device, some people regard
physical libraries as a quaint relics of a forgotten age. Looking at the
practice of today’s digital library portals we get the impression that
the internet is almost non-existent in the academic resource discovery
environment. What we find are online librar ... Continue reading---
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