GO PORTAL

摘要

Since the advent of the Internet and the popularity of common Web search engines, such as Google, library professionals have been battling to hold on to their traditional role of prime information provider in our society. But, thanks to the information portal revolution taking place in libraries today, librarians are quickly regaining their important position. They are offering patrons a single set of search results culled from what is on the World Wide Web plus their library's huge wealth of physical and electronic resources, all retrieved from a single search instigated on an easy-to-use single interface. This means library portal users are not only getting the easiest access possible to information discovery and delivery options that far surpass what is provided on the Internet, they are also only being presented with information that is been evaluated to be scholarly and reliable, reflecting the library's zeal for accuracy and dependability. In short, a library's information portal allows librarians to extend their expertise at organizing access to information (via activities such as classification and indexing) from just the physical print world to also include the digital, Internet world.