Most reliable search tool could be your librarian

reliability or contextuality?: The more you build in that ability to provide the researcher with an understanding of the context in which information is provided or presented the better.

Whether that is context is provided by information technology or a person is about resources and technical development. The crucial issue is that the researcher gets access to the information they need, and they understand its strengths or limits, be they, superficiality, bias, etc.

In the library field it is called information literacy, that is, librarians transferring their information and research skills to researchers; that is, how to search for and retrieve information, and how to be able to evaluate it effectively.

I look with interest to see how that enabling practice in librarianship is built into information technology. I don't see it as an either/or scenario.; Posted by: lucid_librarian Posted on: 09/29/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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reliability or contextuality? lucid_librarian | 09/29/06

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