Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Lesson 1:World Book Online
Exploring World Book Online was very informative. The foreign language versions seem like an excellent resource, especially for younger Spanish speaking patrons. I also liked the feature that facilitated printing subsections of the articles and the correct way to cite the article. With easy availability of online materials plagiarism does seem to be a growing problem. The sites were easy to navigate, but the children's version seemed a little dry and in looking up animals, it seemed a though some snippets of video might have provided some interest. Overall, I am glad I reviewed the online encyclopedia, as in working with outreach activities, I have not had too much need to refer Patron's to online resources so far.
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Welcome aboard the Electronic Resources Challenge, Saila! Thanks for your post. I hope you will check out World Book's special features, such as Kids' "World of Animals" and "Games" and Discover's "World Book Explains Videos." The World Book Student, InfoFinder, Advanced, and Online Reference Center articles contain many videos. Another advantage to online encyclopedias is that they are more current that the print version.
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