The shifting information landscape: Re-inventing the wheel or a whole new frontier for librarians

Abstract

A plenary paper given at STRAIT to the future, 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference, Hobart, 22-26 August 1999 The explosive growth and overwhelming use of World Wide web resources have led to the often misguided, but understandable belief that one can find any information on the web. In business, direct marketing on the web has produced big success stories in sales and marketing which have led to the conclusion that the long-foreshadowed process of 'dis-intermediation' has begun. © 2000 THE AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY JOURNAL. All rights reserved.