October 29, 2009 – 8:55 am
Information in libraries and in library databases has been selected by information professionals. This means that books you find in the library or articles you find in the library databases are likely to be reliable sources of information.
Not all of the information available on the World Wide Web goes through this careful selection process, however. Anyone can publish on The Web. Imagine using a website chock full of talk of alien abductions for an art history paper! Think it can’t happen to you? Read on!
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October 13, 2009 – 4:38 pm
Well, yes, of course we have books, but did you know that we also have thousands of Ebooks, too?! Ebooks are books that have been converted to digital format so you can access them online, 24 hours a day!
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October 13, 2009 – 4:33 pm
Generally speaking, reference books are not intended to be read from cover to cover. They are useful for retrieving quick facts such as the definition of a word, a summary of a historical event, or a brief biography of a famous person. Now you can use a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, or lots of other reference resources to look up information quickly on the Web for free!
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