I am surprised by the reaction to my note about WWW sites.  I cannot find
enough time in the day( and night) to browse the Web enough to see all the
sites I am interested in or read about or hear about in the paper, or
Fortune or Forbes or Information Week or Web Week or Internet World etc.

What a joke- to complain about someone's site, when there are so many other
sites to visit - where a compliment or critique could actually influence the
development of the site to be something YOU want it to be (or need it to
be).  The Mariners' Museum has listened to its opinion surveys, and heard
that users would like to browse the Library Card Catalog online, for free,
and we are working toward that end- it will take some time, and we placed
1,500 books online from the Museum Shop first - of course, to sell them, but
also to offer that service, as information about "items" is valuable too.
The 75,000 volume library card catalog will become automated as quick as
funding is possible, and our committees are discussing how the search should
actually look and feel on the Web - as well as considering the people
without access to the Web and might prefer a CDROM instead - or just a
diskette with a thousand or two thousand books listed on a specific topic.
THat is all possible and will happen.

Thanks for the support to the people who have written this group and me
personally this week - Keep the feedback coming!

Mark


I ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: As a follow-up to my prior note about the "backlash" about Maritime WWW
: sites - I was talking about the 3 or 4 notes I saw written here last week
: commenting that the Mystic Seaport WWW site was ..


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