Seaford Middle School Library Media Center

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Seaford Middle School Library Media Center

• Research Skills Instruction

Part One Online databases
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What are online databases.
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• They are materials originally printed in a paper
  format that are scanned and made into an
  electronic format so that you can see them on
  your computer.

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• Why are online databases usually more reliable
  than the websites I find on the Internet?

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• Since these resources were originally published
  in paper format, they were proofread and edited
  for accuracy prior to their original publication.
  
• Websites often are not proofread or edited and
  are therefore not as reliable as sources of
  information.

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Your at-home library electronic databases

• UDLIb search databases
• http//udlibsearch.lib.udel.edu/highschools/index
  .htm
• Available from any school based computer
• Cant be accessed from your home computer

• DelAWARE databases
• http//www.state.lib.de.us/Collection_Development
  /Electronic_Resources/DelAWARE/
• Available from any computer in the world
• Must have public library card an a pin number