Alice Ferguson librarian extraordinaire

To day as part of this subject I was asked to listen to Alice Ferguson who is the librarian at Charles Sturt University talk about the importance of effective tools for organising and retrieving information.
She spoke about the four main information resources used to find information. They are:

1. library on the desktop
2. hard copy collection
3. libraries online data base collection
4. Internet.

1 & 2 are available by CSU catalog.
3 is commercially produced.
4 needs to use search engines to find the information.

1 & 2 the information is sound and easy to find.
4- the information is added at random and is less reliable. It is not well organised.

When finding call numbers the information is reliable and accurate and has been carefully chosen for accuracy by trained librarians.

The Internet dominates information retrieval although it is less reliable and not well organised.

In summary well organised information is essential to enable libraries to work well.