Copley High SchoolMedia Center

Connecting You to

Print and Electronic

Resources

Introduction to Resources

Mrs. Casida, Mrs. Stratton, Mr. Turakhia

What’s Your Plan?

Google?

Yahoo? Friends?

Books?

Magazines?

Library Staff?

Teachers?

Information Resources

Print Resources

Library Online Catalog

Electronic Resources

American National Biography

Britannica Online EBSCO Host

Library Online Catalog

History of Internet??

•Academic communities (late 60s/early 70s)

•Email, chat rooms (1970’s)

•WWW (1990s)

•Format change (comm., urban legends, etc.)

Wise Consumer of Information?

Are you critically thinking or barely

thinking?

Does Google Have All the Answers?

http://ucomics.com

Evaluation Criteria

Authority – who created the site?

Accuracy – can a print source verify the info.?

Purpose – personal site? academic? commercial?

Content – site include reference to research?

Currency – when was the site last updated?

Usability – are all the links working?

InfOhio Electronic Resources

InfOhio Resource Examples

• National Biography

• Annals of American History

• The Art Collection

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online (School Edition)

• EBSCO Host

Colonial America Resources

• Librarian’s Index to the Internet

• Questia

• Wikipedia

• Salem Witch Trials: The World Behind the Hysteria

• Colonial American Database

• KnowItNow