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Jackson looked embarrassed. "Dad, how long are you going to be in Seattle?" The question had been floating in the back of Joe's mind. The answer crystallized, "Not long." They waited for him to continue. "I don't know what I'm going to do, really, but I'm feeling jumpy. I'll let you know. You've got my e-mail address; I'll check in every so often." He wanted to keep his uncertainty away from Kate.
This means that libraries will have to create Virtual Libraries where students can follow a course offered by an institution at the other side of the world. Personally, I see myself becoming more and more a 'Virtual Librarian'. My clients may not meet me face-to-face but instead will contact me by e-mail, telephone or fax and I will do the research and send them the results electronically."
Also, digital correspondence is so easy to store and organize, I find that I have easy access to information exchanged this way. Thus, e-mailing facilitates keeping track of ideas and materials. As for personal uses, the Internet has increased my correspondence dramatically. Like most people, I find that e-mail works better than snail mail.
As a new communication medium, the Internet can be a way out of the abyss. Anyone can have an e-mail address on the Net. Anyone can use the Web in the public library or in the premises of some association, to find information or look for a job. The Web: First English, Then Multilingual
MS: "Professionally, the Internet has become my major research tool, largely but not entirely replacing the traditional library and even replacing person-to-person research. Now, instead of phoning people or interviewing them face to face, I do it via e-mail. Because of speed, it has also enabled me to collaborate with people at a distance, particularly on screenplays.
In his e-mail of September 3, 1998, Roberto Hernández Montoya, Head of BitBlioteca, explains the way he sees the relationship between the print media and the Internet: "The printed text can't be replaced, at least not for the foreseeable future. The paper book is a tremendous 'machine'. We can't leaf through an electronic book in the same way as a paper book.
In his e-mail to me of September 2, 1998, John Mark Ockerbloom explained how the site began: "I was the original Webmaster here at CMU CS, and started our local Web in 1993. So that's how my index got started. But I hope to keep up my on-line books works in some form or another."
A second cyberspace with six computers opened in April 1998 on the second floor of the library, with the same facilities and a fantastic view on the Lake of Geneva and the surrounding Alps. Peter Raggett, Deputy-Head of the OECD Main Library, made the following comments in his e-mail of June 18, 1998: "The Internet has provided researchers with a vast database of information.
And more free translation software will improve communication among everyone in the international Internet community. In his e-mail to me of September 2, 1998, he wrote: "An interesting thing happened earlier in the history of the Internet and I think I learned something from it. In 1994, I was working for a college and trying to install a software package on a particular type of computer.
Amazon.com handles the secure on-line ordering, customer service, and shipping and sends weekly e-mail sales reports. Enrollment in the program is free, and participants can be up and running the same day. Associates range from large and small businesses to nonprofits, authors, publishers, personal home pages, and more.
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