World Book

Discovery Experience with World Book
I looked up information on Monkeys, I found both the world book kids and world book student to have similar information. The world book student seemed to go more into detail and I liked how both sites geared the information to certain grade levels. I really think it is neat that at the bottom of every article it shows the student how to cite the article for a works cited page. (English teachers love this!)  When I used World Book Advanced and typed in Italy, I thought it was very user friendly for anyone to just look at the left side of the page and click into more specifics about Italy. If I had an adult patron who was going on a trip to Italy, they could click on information about night life in Italy, popular places to visit and find out just about anything they wanted to know. I am a very visual learner so I appreciated the pictures, charts, and graphs that went along with the information. There was so much information there it would be easy to get sidetracked and research things that you never thought of before. World Book Discover, I looked at an article on American government and thought it was very cool that I could change the language. I was looking at the site last night when one of my Spanish speaking patrons came in and she was amazed at all of the articles that she could read in Spanish. I also thought of the Spanish classes that we have in HS, sometimes they have assignments where they need articles that are in Spanish, its an excellent resource for the Spanish class. Because we are in a public and school library I enjoyed looking at both school and public library editions. At the end of my exploration I printed out the South Dakota Libraries Guide to each one of the world book sites. I am going to put them in a binder by the computer for adults and students to look at for a quick reference.  I plan on making another binder that the teachers can check out if they need a quick refresher for when they use it in the class room.