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White, H.S.: Librarians and information specialists on the information superhighway (1994) 0.01
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Abstract

As governmental, academic, and corporate organizations prepare themselves for accessing the information superhighway, it is becoming clear that there has been little planning about what to do about the huge quantities of unevaluated and perhaps unwanted information which threatens to engulf the unsuspecting user. The development of information intermediaries, who can be trusted to shield the end user from information he does not want and that only will waste his time, is already on the horizon. Discusses the role that librarians and information professionals could play in this process of giving the user the important and shielding him from the trivial

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Journal of information; communication; and library science. 1(1994) no.2, S.2-10
White, H.S.: Information technology, users and intermediaries in the 21st century : some observations and predictions (1993) 0.00
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Abstract

That technology will play an increasing role in shaping our information service options appears without doubts. The development of new technology continues at an ever-accelerating rate, and since the library and information field is faced with the potential application of hardware, software, and networks initially designed for other purposes and for other uses, it is extremely difficult for us to try to shape or predict either the specific direction or even the rate of change. What we can perhaps predict, and what we can certainly hope to influence, is the extent to which information usage through our libraries and other formal information facilities will become a self-service environment at the expense of information intermediaries, or perhaps the extent to which a new profession concerned less with mechanisms and more with response to service needs for information and answers rather than documents may flourish
White, H.S.: ¬The role of information intermediaries and the superhighway : important, trivial, or non-existent? (1995) 0.00
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Abstract

Acting as screeners of information, to make sure that the 'good' material gets through and that the irrelevant never bothers the client, will require a new profession of information traffic policeman, individuals who can be respected and trusted. Someone will certainly fill that role. By preparation and expertise, it should be librarians, but only if they stop focusing on sheer volume and start concentrating on what the client considers quality

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Information superhighway: the role of librarians, information scientists, and intermediaries. Festschrift in honor of Frederick Wilfred Lancaster. 17th International Essen Symposium, 24.-27.10.1994. Ed. A.H. Helal et al