Library Research 2011

Library Research 2011

One of the hardest things about research is actually finding the information and making sure it is correct. On the Internet you can post anything you want and say anything you want. When you have to find something you have to take extra steps to prevent false information. When you go to Google alone millions of pages pop up so you have to take the time to find out what’s what. This library course has helped me out a lot even though we only met once a week. I was able to understand different key words that revolve around the subject. I learned that just typing in something like Infant Mortality is a broad topic that can be narrowed down to something more specific like SIDS or another subtopic. Without this class I wouldn’t know specific examples of plagiarism or stories that are false or true. One thing that may have been useful to me would have been slightly tougher lessons that made us think harder then what we actually were in the class. Some of the assignments like the story were fun, but they were kind of easy, because some of them were common sense stories. But other than that I don’t have much to complain about.

it. Over all it was an amazing class and an extremely  good experience. .

You Couldn't Be More Wrong

“Since everything is on the Internet, I don’t need books…right?”

Well you’re wrong if you agree with this. There will always be things that the internet cannot offer. Some things like old classical books like Emily Dickenson or William Shakespeare, you will never find on the internet in its originality. That is only something that you can hold and look at with your own eyes. Staring at a computer screen reading something doesn’t seem amazing as reading it; you will never find and experience the magic that reading the book and flipping the pages will offer. Some people who have never experienced such a joy may not understand this, but as someone who has spent their childhood reading books, I don’t like reading things off the computer screen where everything seems so bright and fake. I enjoy sitting in a nice comfy bed of pillows in front of the fire place smelling the wood burn, as I imagine the world that has been created for me—with a computer I would never be able to experience that.

It’s easier to gather some information from a book because at least you don’t have to worry about someone changing the information to fit their likes. On the internet people will edit whatever they want to fit those needs, if they feel the book doesn’t agree with them. Sometimes the things on the internet are completely wrong and many people may not care about the issue. So yah in the end you do need a book even though there’s the internet—that way you know the information is correct from the source.