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Treasurer & Member of the Board of Save the Manatee Club.
River Restoration Consultant Florida Defenders of the Environment.
Founding member & Director of the Florida Climate Alliance.
Joseph V. Siry web site is at, Rollins College.
Author of Marshes of the Ocean Shore.
Cast member: What is the Electric Car?
The roles of history in learning.
DK Find Out (visualizing concepts).
"For the last few years, librarians have increasingly seen people use online search sites not to supplement research libraries but to replace them. Yet only recently have librarians stopped lamenting the trend and started working to close the gap between traditional scholarly research and the incomplete, often random results of a Google search. 'We can't pretend people will go back to walking into a library and talking to a reference librarian' said Kate Wittenberg, director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University."
"Ms. Wittenberg's group recently finished a three-year study of research habits, including surveys of 1,233 students across the country, that concluded that electronic resources have become the main tool for information gathering, particularly among undergraduates. 'We have to respond to these new ways,' Ms. Wittenberg said, and come up with a way to make better research material available online. That means working with commercial search engines like Google and Yahoo to make ever more digital-research materials searchable. Undergraduates like Ms. Maxianova and her classmates are not the only ones conducting research from their computers. Faculty members also do it."
New York Times, June 21, 2004.
On Search Engines. More about Search Engines Terry Winograd, Ph. D. Stanford faculty, taught graduate students about the deep web or dark web.
Surfwax – "Enabling knowledge of today's information." Identifies the date & source of stories on the web.
University of California Library System
