Caught In the Web

Through ETL 505 at Charles Sturt University I have been introduced to the wonders of the Trove, Pictures, Photos, Objects website. (The Mouse Brain Library was interesting too!) The idea of being able to retrieve images through such a website is very interesting to me. I am of course accustomed to searching via Google Images but didn't realise the National Library in Canberra had a meta data index and the fact that it is linked to a web service is phenomenal. I am just reflecting on the importance of the web today -I don't think it would be easy to live our lives without it. I am frequently checking books/information on the Internet at work -it's so user friendly!