Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Beware the Ides

I used Google to find information on the Ides of March. It quickly offered me InfoPlease (the first site among 7,250,000 others) where I read all about the middle of the month and Julius Caeser and Shakespeare.

I did then search through GALILEO. I looked at Encyclopedia Britannica, Funk & Wagnalls, Searchasaurus, Oxford English Dictionary.

Google gave me the quickest response for this bit of fact finding.

Knowing what to use as the best resource for finding information is the key to information literacy.

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