Opinion remains divided in the library and education professions regarding the value of the publicly available World Wide Web as an appropriate source to find materials and conduct research. Analysis of over 700 citations in a bibliography of the late twentieth century visionary philosopher and eschatologist Terence McKenna reveals that half the periodical articles and two-thirds of material in other media could not be found using the traditional bibliographic research infrastructure of bibliographic databases, library catalogs, and commercial bookseller lists. Instead, it was necessary to use search engines, online auction sites, online booksellers and file sharing networks (like Google, eBay, Amazon and Grokster), none of which are currently recognized or taught as venues for locating information for scholarly purposes.