Re: Online Literary Criticism-HIT

[Adam Janowski <nhslmc@MEDIAONE.NET>]

I wanted to respond to the following message.  I have taken excerpts
from both the beginning and the end of her message.

Marianne Haggerty wrote:

"Dear Colleagues,
    I recently requested your recommendations for online literary
criticism.  We currently subscribe to Gale Online and have Twayne and
Scribners Authors available.  Poor user interface and slowness of their
server make this a less than satisfactory product.  It is also quite
expensive.  Many of you wrote expressing those sentiments...

...I wish I could offer more options, but I fear there isn't much out
there and that's why Gale is in no hurry to improve their product."

I just wanted to comment that, as far as I have seen, there is
absolutely no substitute for the Gale on-line product. We use
DISCovering authors and have found it to be easy for our students to
use, offering a wealth of literary criticisms from quality sources
unavailable anywhere else.  I haven't seen the problems regarding speed
that are mentioned.

In the past we relied on Gale's print products (CLC, TCLC, CA, etc.).
They were always of high quality and always expensive.  We had to pick
and choose volumes, and certainly couldn't afford everything.  There
wasn't any other product in print that could match their content,
however.

I guess my point is "You get what you pay for."  It holds true with
print resources as well as Internet-based products.  If you want to
guide students to quality resources available through the Internet you
are going to have to pay for them.

Adam
--
Adam Janowski, Library Media Specialist
Naples High School Library Media Center, Naples, Florida
Email: nhslmc@mediaone.net  Website: http://www.se.mediaone.net/~nhslmc

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