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Sunday, September 15, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/15/technology/circuits/15BASI.html A Reference Library on Disk or Online LARRY MAGID A generation or two ago, encyclopedia salesmen would scour neighborhoods, knocking on doors in search of parents willing to part with several months' pay to help ensure the educational success of their children. Their wares often became a fixture of family rooms, growing old, dusty and woefully out of date. Now you can free up those bookcases for novels or knickknacks and use your personal computer to consult an even more impressive set of up-to-date reference works. There are basically two approaches. You can purchase a suite of reference tools on CD-ROM or DVD or you can get access to encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, atlases and other reference works on the Internet. Some Internet sites charge a monthly or annual fee, but others are free. There are even ways for library patrons and students to get free access to some of the fee-based services....
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