Chris Nolan, second only to the Head Librarian at Coates Library came into our class on Thursday and taught us a thing or two about searching the World Wide Web. Contrary to my prior beliefs and teachings, there is actual credible and scholarly information to be found from searching Google, Bing, Yahoo, and the like. After a lifetime of being told this myth of unreliability, Chris Nolan visited our class to correct it.
Through narrowing a search down to only the essential or most "relevant" pages, a student can actually retrieve useful and acceptable info from the Internet WITHOUT using only library databases. Whereas Benjamin Harris enlightened us on the use of the library website and its valuable and varied databases, Chris Nolan opened our minds to the whole Internet, and its literally billions of resources out there for us to take advantage of. Google Scholar, and search engines of the like with a specific aim, can filter out the irrelevant information and provide a student with what they need to succeed. Thanks Chris!
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