Expanding Our Knowledge of Evaluating Networked Information Services and Resources: Prelude to the Mid-Year Meeting

摘要

The 1999 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting (MYM) in Pasadena (May 24-26) presents an outstanding opportunity to expand our knowledge of evaluating networked information services and resources. As co-chairs of the meeting, we would like to provide a preview of some of the important and timely issues that the Society will be discussing there. Access to and use of networked information resources and services over the Internet continue to explode. Traditional uses, such as e-mail, Web searching and uploading/downloading files, have continued to grow exponentially at the same time that new and innovative interactive services and applications - such as moving from "Webs" to "portals" - are also appearing and taking hold at an astonishing rate. Commercial applications and uses of the network also are growing. As the "Digital Economy" expands, multiple impacts on society will occur.