>Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 16:50:26 -0700 (PDT)
>From: FAW@USDCSV.ACUSD.EDU
>
>Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 18:46:16 CDT
>Sender: Library Administration and Management <LIBADMIN@UMAB.BITNET>
>From: Bernie Sloan <AXPBBGS@UICVMC.BITNET>
>Subject: Computer conferences and research
>
> There's a brief item in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education
> (p. A25), that starts off: "A Cornell University professor who
> has studied computer bulletin boards has concluded that they
> are not very helpful to researchers".
>
> The item goes on to briefly cite his experience with the Usenet
> group sci.physics.fusion.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing reactions from people who read the
> item. Have there been other such "studies"? Have results been
> similar?
One very good study was conducted by Sharyn Ladman and Hope
Tillman, on "Special Librarians' Use of the Internet." The
article is available by anonymous ftp from hydra.uwo.ca,
directory /libsoft, file spec-libs.txt. Ladman and Tillman
verified that e-mail is the most widely used Internet application
among special librarians.
Jim Milles
Head of Computer Services
Saint Louis University Law Library
millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu
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