Online Databases Quotes

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

Because there are now online databases of federally funded research, and these databases are searchable by keyword, sex researchers have to be careful how they title their projects. It's become a simple matter, for those who are so inclined, to find and target researchers whose work they object to on religious grounds.

Talking to liberals is much more fun now that we have Lexis-Nexis.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.

The Deep Web contains shockingly valuable information. Can you imagine how cancer research would blossom if every researcher had instant access to every research paper done by every single university and research lab in the world?

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

I don't know who's running IMDB. It could be computers. I'd like to talk to someone from IMDB.

I don't understand how IMDB works. I don't know who logs in the information. I've checked it a couple times and saw (something he was supposed to be listed in) that I wasn't in there, and thought, "Well, I'm not gonna put it in there".

My quest to find my first family would never have been actualized without technology.

I don't get the IMDb... I've called them several times myself and said, 'Guys, look... ' I've given them specific titles that should not be on there. But they won't take them down.

Oh, IMDB, yeah; there's a few things on there that are TV, they're not film, some things they think we did that we didn't. There's a few inaccuracies in there. It's terrifying though, isn't it?