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£ 3 3 This Current Awareness column, and previous Current Awareness columns, are now fully searchable in the new CAUM database (Current Awareness for Legal Information Managers). The CAUM database is available on the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies website at: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/caware/caware.htm § o I I M U Bibliographical GuidesAlford (Duncan E.) South Carolina practice manuals: a selective, annotated bibliography. Affirmative action and diversity: a selected and annotated bibliography. Legal

A tutor in a Dublin university tells how she set her pupils an information-searching project and despaired at the results. Students were asked to compare how long it took to find, using the Internet and/or traditional methods (whichever was most efficient), certain types of information such as the author of an obscure book or the name of the gardener in the Japanese embassy. Every student, except those over the age of 25 or so, made a dash for the computers, logged on, and skipped any questions the answers to which could not be found online. Using the telephone, or -God forbid -asking a human for help, was out of the question. Just as the tutor feared.Where do we go from here? Will the "World Wild Web" be domesticated as a result of this apparent ease of searching and finding? O r will this be a pyrrhic victory in which we win the information battle at the expense of our research skills? Maybe in the end we'll be able to forage only for those scraps of information that are thrown at us while we're rendered incapable of reaching that which remains hidden. o / -v

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