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Abstract

The author, librarian at the USIS Reference Center, the American Embassy, Oslo, does not share other Norwegians' enthusiasm for the Internet and regrets the shift from physical collections to access to information in a virtual library. The boundlessness of cyberspace has led to dissolution of identify for individuals, institutions and nations. Lists with examples 3 uses of the Internet in reference work: passive reception of information; active searching/surfing; interactive communication; each with its tools and guides to the sites. Libraries face the challenge of placing Internet use in an economic framework which does not lose the present mutual helpfulness shown by users. Internet's trendiness, of which hypertext is a symptom, turns information into infotainment

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Examines how far automation cluster analysis and association testing are relevant methods for smaller libraries in construction of search thesauri. Using WORDSTAR, a simple form of cluster analysis was tested, with satisfactory results in that the index terms formed clusters of a suitable size. The association test was used to elicit from users' natural language terms which can be used in the search thesaurus as entrance vocabulary. The test showed that users associated very differently in relation to the same stimuli words, with low overlap with terms used in the system's indexing. The results confirmed the need for better feedback. Concludes that while neither method can be used alone, a search thesauri which combine terms from the indexes and from users can be a powerful tool

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Comments on Statens Bibliotekstjeneste's 1993 report on subject data in research libraries. Despite the failure in the 70s to create a common classification system using notation, the report recommends just such a system but using verbal expressions. It assumes that subject indexing problems can be solved by reusing other libraries' key words and that user groups are homogeneous and able to use the systems thus leaving libraries as professionals intermediaries without responsibility. Uses the experiences of the author's library, the Environmental Library, which itself indexes all material, and gives 6 examples of how other institutions index the same publications differently, to show that the simple recycling system which the report recommends cannot be used there. Rather than spend recources on developing electronic catalogues, as the report recommends, funds should be used to help research libraries construct systems targeting their specific user group