Encarta

[Frances Jacobson <jacobson@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU>]

Dear LM_NETTERS,

I must put in a plug for poor Funk and Wagnalls, in both print form and
synthesized Encarta form.  Don't let the supermarket image fool you!  F & W
is a perfectly servicable, brief-article format encyclopedia.  Just check
reviews in places like Booklist.  And now, Oxford University Press is
handling marketing to libraries.  What concerns me is the trouble I have
convincing my students that Encarta IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, not a magical
universal source of all the world's valuable information.  It's all part of
teaching students to evaluate information, yes?

I certainly agree that we shouldn't get electronic versions of things we
wouldn't get in print, unless the multimedia aspects provide unique and
important attributes.

Frances Jacobson
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