The World Wide Web : a new look over foundations of libraries

With the launching of Mosaic, in 1993, networked hypertext services gained an impressive success among Internet users. The World Wide Web uses two protocols : HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), a markup language that enables different computers to use the same hypertext ; and the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) naming scheme which standardizes the way to address resources over the network. We are witnessing a mutation of the network, which becomes the tool of a logical link between informations. The birth of an information space opens new responsabilities for librarians : to give the users access to this new kind of document, and rebuild the foundations of the professional skills of document mediators in front of this new reading/writing scheme.
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