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Librariesvs.

the Internet

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Libraries...A Very Brief History

The Internet is available forresearch 24 hours a day, 7 days aweek. Although some libraries offeronline services, the library itself isnot always available.

Researchers can find web sites onthe Internet that offer text, video,audio, photos, graphics, and othermultimedia. Libraries housemultimedia, but they are notnecessarily found all in one place.

The information on the Internet ismore up-to-date and timely. Website content can be updated withthe newest information.

Keyword searches via an Internetsearch engine uncover a largevariety of web sites on and manydiffering opinions about a topic.

Many newsgroups, listservs, social-media sites, and question-and-answer forums are available on theInternet, providing ways for quickfeedback from an onlinecommunity.

Some newspapers, journals,magazines, and encyclopediasoffer full content on the Internet,rivaling content that is available atlibraries.

You can find an answer veryquickly on the Internet to manyquestions. It may take longer if youlook for answers to those samequestions in a library.

On the Internet, you can researchfrom home or from a variety oflocations, if access is available.

The library has access to morejournals and books. According to

the ALA, the Internet providesonly 8% of all journals, and an

even lower percentage of allbooks are available.

Librarians are trainedprofessionals and can assist

researchers. On the Internet, youare on your own.

Libraries catalog and organizeall materials, making research

easy. Internet search engines donot have access to all Internet

content, and the content availableis not organized.

Libraries house archivedmaterials and content. Content

more than 15 years old can bedifficult to find on the Internet.

Sources found at the library are

easy to identify. Not all sourcesfound on the Internet are

identifiable, and thus not reliable.

Libraries offer free access tocontent, including journals,

magazines, newspapers,encyclopedias, and more. Some

Internet content is subscription-based.

Researchers have access tophysical books. Studies show

that the majority of readers preferreading physical books to online

materials.

Most online library content isfree of advertisements, unlike

most free Internet content.

I have research to do.

Johann Gutenberg invents moveable type. Books are now printed instead of handwritten.

The first public library opens in New Hampshire.

Librarians, led by Melvil Dewey, establish the American Library Association (ALA). That sameyear, Dewey copyrights his Dewey Decimal System, a book-classification system. Andrew Carnegie builds 2,509 public libraries in the United States, allowing Americans fullaccess to library services.

School libraries undergo substantial development, thanks to money from public funding foreducation. The ALA estimates that there are 119,487 libraries of all kinds in the United States.

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Should I use the LIBRARY or the INTERNET?

The Internet...A Very Brief History

1957 The USSR launches Sputnik into orbit, enabling global communications.

Bell Labs invents the modem, which allows communication between computers.

Considered the "official birthday" of the Internet, a term coined by pioneers Vint Cerf andRobert Kahn.

Computer scientist Tim Berners Lee creates the World Wide Web (WWW).

The World Wide Web is made public. Many search engines are created during this decade.

Politician Al Gore's High-Performance Computing and Communications Act provides $600million for computer-network research and development. An "Information Superhighway" iscreated.

By April of this year, more than 3.8 billion people globally use the Internet. This is more thanhalf of the world's population.

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http://www.tnstate.edu/library/publicservices/library_vs_internet.aspxhttps://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2010/01/20/10-reasons-why-the-internet-is-no-substitute-for-a-library/

http://libguides.stonehill.edu/c.php?g=358557&p=2420856https://architecturesaveourlives.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/pros-and-cons

http://guides.rider.edu/c.php?g=420759&p=2873050library-vs-internet/http://booksvsinternet.weebly.com/pros--cons.html

http://www.exercisetherighttoread.org/historyoflibrary.pdfhttp://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet01

http://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtmlhttp://internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timeline

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