Re: LM_NET Digest - 7 Nov 1996 - Special issue

[Ellen Wiseman <ewiseman@wt.net>]

I agree.  Today a teacher and I looked for the Zodiac on the World Book CD
encyclopedia so that we could print the pictures for the kids.  The pictures
were not there; for pictures the article directed us to the print version of
the encyclopedia!


> From:    fran wolfe <flwolfe@WAVE.PARK.WY.US>
> I had an interesting thing happen this week and I thought I would share it:
> a student (6th grade) came in wanting to know the melting point of wax.
> He said his teacher had told him to look in the electronic ency. so we did.
> Grolier had an article on wax, but no mention of melting point.  Looked
> then in hardbound science dictionaries and one-volume encyclopedias.  No
> luck.  On a whim we pulled out a hardbound ency (colliers, to be specific)
> and there it was.  Lesson I learned from this is that the abbreviation of
> the articles in the electronic ency makes it very important that we do not
> hastily give up our hardbound encys.