The Wisdom of Crowds of Librarians Is on the Way—In Time: Reference Extract

Google can sleep easier—for a while, at least. A flurry of press coverage suggesting that “radical, militant librarians” —as the FBI refers to members of this profession—were heading its way turns out to be a little previous. While experts from three top library and information science institutions have begun a process that they promise will lead to a new search engine with a new infrastructure designed to emphasize authoritative content, the process is at very early stages yet. According to R. David Lankes, Ph.D., director of the Information Institute of Syracuse (http://iis.syr.edu) and associate professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, a product roll-out for Reference Extract (http://referencextract.org) is not expected to take place until sometime in 2010. The other two institutions involved are the University of Washington’s Information School (www.ischool.washington.edu) and OCLC (www.oclc.org). The MacArthur Foundation (www.macfound.org) has provided a $100,000 planning grant, which should lead to a full proposal in 2009.

Source: Info Today NewsBreaks (BQ)

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