Reading Assignment #3

Reading assignment # 3 I am guilty of being on the google diet. If I am doing research for a project or just need to find something on the internet I will “Google It.” Google has become the academic library's main competitor. Google are for “those who want fast, easy access to unlimited, full-text content using interfaces that require no critical thought or evaluation.” James Morris, the dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University coined the term “infobesity” describing Google research: “a junk-information diet, consisting of overwhelming amounts of low-quality material that is hard to digest and leads to research papers of equally low quality.” Providing access to the nutritious information that library holds in a manner that Google provides access would be genius. The answer to this problem might be commercially produced databases called aggregators. The databases will use Boolean searching and other features that will give better search results for people that willing to give the time. I feel like we should Google-ize are online library and databases. Students do find the electronic resource information very confusing. It would make perfect sense to googlize everything. Bottom line is we need students to stop using low quality information and start using high quality information.Bell, Steven. “The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer An Appetizing Alternative To Google.” Chronicles of Higher Education Vol. 50, 24 (2/20/2004).