End of Week Five Redux

Just posted my discussion response to the Bradford's law question in LIS 2000. There were some very interesting posts and most people covered the question from the bibliographic database angle. I was a little intimidated by some of the responses and feel that perhaps I misunderstood the question. Anyway, I am just noting my insecurity here...Also, in LIS 2000, I signed up for my Hot Topics assignment and got in the group covering social networking. Before the course started I would have thought social networknig meant things like the "Old Boy network" so I had no idea it meant there was an area on the web for an exchange of information which individuals could sign up for and get feeds for, etc., very exciting, and makes me feel a little behind. Sometimes I wonder if everything I do where I work is obsolete and pointless. I simply catalog books and manuscripts into a local database (PastPerferct software) and it has no further use than as a catalog for our own collection. I need to find how and if I can ever get this information on the web. More on this later I hope...