You're looking for snippets of information. The Reference section has book after book with brief explanations arranged in dictionary style. Grab the book and flip to the page and voila- just the correct amount of information. Sometimes you need to pull one reference book after another to find the right fact but the facts are there. It's good for triceps and biceps- reach, pull, lift...
What if you're not in the physical library? A quick search in Google or even Wiki-pedia might turn up that elusive smidgen of information. Can you rely on those sources?
Credo Reference offers 354 reference books online. To test the search results in Credo, I tried to think of something I would need just facts about. A person's biography seemed the way to go. (Yes, I like genealogy so looking for folks birth dates and death dates was a natural choice.) I searched for Edison.
1706 results came up. Sources like The Columbia Encyclopedia from Columbia University Press, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists, The Crystal Reference Encyclopedia and more....
Nice. I didn't have to stand in the library pulling volume after volume off the shelf.
NMTC has purchased access to all of Credo Reference. A search box for Credo is on the NMTC Library page and the Blog and the MySpace. Students can pick up the login password from the library or they can access it through GALILEO.
Save those arm muscles - use the online reference works!
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
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