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- Title: Digg.Com and Socially-Driven Authority (Lpp Special Issue on Libraries and Google)
- Author : Library Philosophy and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 188 KB
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For years, librarians have been able to distill the notion of authority, in its purest form, to two simple questions: "Who said it?" and "Under whose auspices?" The answer to either, or preferably both, of these questions could tell a researcher whether to rely on the information retrieved. Thus, if the person making a statement was an expert, then you could probably trust what he or she said. If something was written in a respected, reputable journal, then it was probably trustworthy. The Dictionary for Library and Information Science defines "authority" as: