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Thursday, January 23, 2003
Has Google Won? A Librarian Says Students Have More Data Than They Know What to Do With - SCOTT CARLSON, the Chronicle
Like many other librarians, Steven J. Bell has watched students go to online databases, enter a few search terms, and get hundreds of articles in return. Swamped with information, and doubtless on a deadline, these students print out the first several articles -- making no effort to evaluate the articles' quality -- and then run off to write their papers. Now Mr. Bell, library director at Philadelphia University, asks a question that might seem heretical for someone in his field: Is more information always better?
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