Information+Access


 * [|Information Access Bibliography]
 * [|The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval]
 * [|As We May Think]
 * [|What do People Want?]

=Information Access=


 * **Technical barriers**
 * What are examples?
 * Who are affected?
 * What are possible solutions?
 * **Physical barriers**
 * What are examples?
 * Who are affected?
 * What are possible solutions?
 * **Cultural barriers**
 * What are examples?
 * Who are affected?
 * What are possible solutions?
 * **Economic barriers**
 * What are examples?
 * Who are affected?
 * What are possible solutions?

=The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval=


 * In 1960s, why was free-text searching a big deal?
 * In 1970s, why were time-sharing systems key technology motivator for IR? How did that help librarians at the time?
 * Why would Arthur Samuel wrote in 1964 that by 1984 libraries would have ceased to exist, except at museums?
 * In 1993, who is the top vendor of online information? What was the most popular product of that company? What was that product for?
 * Has Al Gore's vision of "a schoolchild in my home town of Carthage, Tennessee, being able to come home, turn on her computer and plug into the Library of Congress" been fulfilled today?
 * What is your thought on the ending "If we think of information as a sea, the job of the librarian in the future will no longer be to provide the water, but to navigate the ship?"

=What Do People Want from Information Retrieval?=
 * How well does Yahoo Directory do in providing these 10 things people want?
 * How well does Google do in providing these 10 things people want?
 * How well does Facebook do in providing these 10 things people want?
 * What are missing?