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FULL SPEED AHEAD ON THE INTERNET

Students reports will never be the same. Teaching research skills in the library media center will never again be a pale imitation of real-life information searches.

Harnessing Internet Resources for the Student Researcher.

What the Internet entails and that it is an instructional resource, not a subject in itself, are two main concepts to understand before attempting to integrate the Net into a school’s curriculum. New users sometimes have difficulty fathoming the expanse of the Internet’s holdings. The school library may have one or two resources on a [...]

Citing Internet Resources

How students should reference online sources in their bibliographies
Research. It’s one of the major reasons students use the Internet. Elementary and secondary students now rely on the Internet as a major fact-gathering tool. Just as students cite the books and periodicals they use to support their research, so must they also cite their online sources [...]

Schools that are using the Internet: who are they?

Over one-third of all public schools are known to be using the Internet according to preliminary numbers from Market Data Retrieval’s (MDR) 1996 K-12 technology survey. In addition, almost three-quarters of all districts have at least one school on the Internet.
From November 2000 until June 2005, MDR surveyed 10,400 public school districts concerning the specific [...]

Internet Tips.

How to copy or save a GIF Image from Netscape
Hold down the mouse button on the image for one or two seconds and a pop-up menu will appear. Select “save this image as. . .” or “copy this image.” Save the image to your disk or temporarily leave it in the clipboard if you plan [...]

Guidelines for Using the Internet.

A few basic tips can go a long way in making sure students and staff have a successful Internet experience. These guidelines are intended as a checklist and reminders of some of the things to consider before implementing a class project. They were developed by myself and Mary Alice Anderson is a Media Specialist at [...]

Service-oriented Architecture Delivers Greater Returns from Web Services

Although smart companies are using Web services to improve the way they do business, firms have even more to gain by changing the way they think about their infrastructure. According to a new research report, Chief Information Officers (CIO) that adopt the discipline of service-oriented architecture are positioning their firms for [...]

e-Business No Longer An Either-Or Technology Decision

Many thought it was archaic and dying, but after almost three decades years of existence, one of the most widely deployed standards for conducing e-Business transactions is as strong as ever, and even continuing to grow. At the same time, newer standards are evolving and competing for ubiquity in an ever-changing [...]

Information on E-marketing Growth : A Recent Trend

Online buyers

According to survey findings from the latest global trend, companies increasingly are using the Internet to purchase direct and indirect goods and services, and they are saving money as a result. For in matter of quarterly scenario, the percentage of direct materials purchased using the Internet surpassed that of indirect [...]

Terminal Server Powered Workstaions For Libraries

Maybe a modern librarian doesn’t miss much the text-based computer terminals that only accesses the catalog, but your Systems department probably does. We still have few existing at our libraries; they’re like sneakers: quick, quiet, and when they stop working, you replace them. All good and simple things must become complex, and now that we’ve grown up, we have [...]