ONLINE DATABASES: Keeping Up with Expectations

摘要

User expectations are ch ang-ing, mainly owing to the web, search engines, and advances in communications technology. Libraries and information industry providers are taking steps, both large and small, to keep pace. A recent cartoon in The Chronicle of Higher Education by Sidney Harris shows a twentysomething couple walking past a newsstand full of newspapers and print magazines. The man says to his companion with a puzzled look, "Beats me. It's yesterday's news, it's hard copy, and you have to pay for it" (8/4/06).