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Research - Internet versus Library

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time when a research project was assigned the high school or college student went to a library. There, he or she would search the card catalog, jotting down the call  codes for the books. The student would then search through the periodical indexes that the library stocked. Again, it meant jotting down title and author of the article, the name  of journal or other kind of periodical, year and month it was published and the page number for the article. A serious research project for higher education classes often meant  accessing masters theses and doctoral abstract indexes in addition to everything else. Once again, the student would repeat the process of jotting down the information needed to find the specific  document. Then, the student had to go through the stacks, pull the specific books, journals, periodicals and so on, scan through them and determine if anything was really relevant to  the topic being researched. Then there were the trips to different libraries because all academic libraries do not necessarily stock the same reference materials. A good researcher would not  have to visit more than three different libraries, if those were selected based on criteria. For example, an academic university library typically has more reference materials than a college library.  The more specialized the topic of research, the more specialized the library needed to be. The further along in the educational process the student was, i.e., high school, undergraduate,  graduate or post-graduate, the more intense and comprehensive the searches became and the longer they took. It was not unusual for a doctoral candidate to spend months researching, often falling  asleep in the library amidst a stack of books and journals. To say the traditional library research project was an exercise in endurance and patience would not be an