Report # 4

The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer an Appetizing Alternative to Google. By, Bell, Steven J.. Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/20/2004, vol. 50 Issue 24, pb15-15, 1p,1color; (an 12446581)

The author of this article comments that we have forgotten the library and others that work there. He comments that we as students are on the fast track. We want our information easy and quick. That we are use to finding our information using google and that its information might be quick but the information that we read on-line is not as good as the information that a library would have to offer.

Mr. Morris the Dean of students comments that he believe that google is one of the reasons why students turn in poor work. Because the research is done on the web using google and other resources that are not as efficient as what the library offers.He also commented that they are many ways to look for resources that you need in the library and one such way is using an aggregate, which will help you narrow down your search. He comments that he believes that the use of an aggregate might be difficult at first but students should have to learn to use these ways and that teachers should make the effort to make sure their students use the library for their information.

The author of this article written by. Mr. Bell comments that there is a new project that some Universities are working on called Red Light Green Light. This project will offer different ways of putting information together to make it easier for both student and librarians to find.

I feel that google might be easier in the short term but the information is hard to figure out. I have tried using both and the library offers more of the specific information that is needed instead hunting and pecking.

In conclusion, it is faster and easier to use google but in the long term is not as effective in researching the information we need as students to turn well informed research paper in.