IT'S AN INFORMATION JUNGLE OUT THERE
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"Over the last decade, which is less than a blink of an eye in the history of the human race, it’s all changed. And we've gone from a world in which there is too little information, in which information is scarce, to a world in which there is too much information, and most of it is untrue or irrelevant. You know, the world of the Internet is the world of information that is not actually so. It’s a world of information that just isn’t actually true, or if it is true, it’s not what you needed, or it doesn't actually apply like that, or whatever. And you suddenly move into a world in which librarians fulfill this completely different function.
We've gone from looking at a desert, in which a librarian had to walk into the desert for you and come back with a lump of gold, to a forest, to this huge jungle in which what you want is one apple. And at that point, the librarian can walk into the jungle and come back with the apple. So I think from that point of view, the time of librarians, and the time of libraries—they definitely haven’t gone anywhere." Neil Gaiman
We've gone from looking at a desert, in which a librarian had to walk into the desert for you and come back with a lump of gold, to a forest, to this huge jungle in which what you want is one apple. And at that point, the librarian can walk into the jungle and come back with the apple. So I think from that point of view, the time of librarians, and the time of libraries—they definitely haven’t gone anywhere." Neil Gaiman
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SEARCH ENGINES
SOME ALTERNATIVE SEARCH ENGINES GOOD FOR STUDENTS
GOOGLE BOOKS NGRAM VIEWER
When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer (above), it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in millions of books over selected years. It makes for some very interesting discoveries and usually poses many more questions.
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