Louis Rosenfeld and Eric T. Rumsey and have much in common: or at least I think they do! Lou Rosenfeld  holds a Masters in Information and Library Studies and a B.A. in History, both from The University of Michigan. He is a passionate advocate for applying the principles of information science and librarianship to the Internet. Indeed, he founded the (sadly missed) Argus Clearinghouse on these principles.  

The Hardin Meta Directory is very much a library oriented source. 
It has deep roots in the library world. Rumsey, 1999 (kudos)

Eric Rumsey could write a book! He is Librarian at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa–Iowa City, and creator of the Hardin MD Clean Bill of Health award for sites with connection rates of 93% and over. In his interesting May 1999 article on bringing the strengths of the library to the web he said:

As I have found in working on the meta directory, there is a remarkable number of good directory sites in health/medicine developed and maintained by librarians. I would like to suggest that one reason for this may be the long experience of librarians in providing browsing access to their collections by classification number...What I look for with the meta directory is a sort of "list-keeping instinct" - Librarians certainly have this quality in great measure, but the list-keeping instinct also burns strongly in many non-librarians around the web.

Explaining how link-checking software and random manual spot checking are used to determine the connection rate of links on the lists included in the Hardin MD, Rumsey emphasizes that, " The real work of doing a directory site is, not creating it, but keeping it maintained".

Rumsey says that two of his favourite cases (!) of the listing instinct at work are the Librarians' Index and Digital Librarian.

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