Print Encyclopedias
Posted by: Barbara Bibel
I agree with Dave. Working in a public library, we find a print encyclopedia very useful. We keep a current set of World Book at the desk because it is so handy for answering a wide variety of questions. We also circulate older sets (past three years). Students doing reports love them. So do people studying for the citizenship test. The encyclopedia has the complete text of the Constitution, an explanation of the electoral college, and a nice chart of how a bill becomes a law. We also have Grolier Online, which is nice because it includes Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre for Spanish speakers. Both the print and the online encyclopedias are good tools for research and for teaching students to find information. Ideally, they will learn to use an index and conduct a focused search. Our job is to help them do this.
