ABSTRACT
As was the case with the introduction of full-text online services during the mid eighties, the Internet leaders tend to be the editors, the subject specialists — especially IT — and the foreign journalists, all journalists with the incentive, need, time and resources to exploit the new technology to their benefit. The finding that librarians do exploit the nooks and crannies of the Internet for the obscure, unusual or ‘unofficial’ information points to a kind of information adventurism and a higher level of searching skills. Despite the huge number of newspaper sites the Internet now hosts, librarians, in stark contrast to their journalist colleagues, spurned them. The arrival of every new technology is normally greeted with a flurry of articles writing the obituaries of the library/librarian — and it is interesting that similar things are starting to be said about newspapers/journalists.
