GEN: Questia Online Library evaluation request

[Reed - Ann Cober <acreed@UMD5.UMD.EDU>]

If you have used Questia Online Library (www.questia.com)
I would appreciate your 1st hand evaluation of it's usefulness
for a high school library.

Questions that come to mind:

Is it easy to use?
Do students actually like and want to use it on their own?
Does it measure up to it's advertisements?
Do you think it is worth $50 per student?
How does it compare to EBSCO or any other that you have used?
If it is used in your school... by subject teachers are using
it the most?
How is it for primary sources?  (This is a really important aspect
    for my teachers.)

I did a Google search and couldn't find any evaluation that I
thought wasn't sponsored by Questia itself... well there were
two... but I couldn't get into those sites... they kept kicking
me completely out of Internet Explorer.

Thank you... most gratefully for any experience you have had
with Questia.

Ann



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Ann Cober Reed, MLIS, Librarian/Media Specialist
A 1999 Maryland Technology Academy Fellow
Col. Richardson High S.,  25320 Richardson Road
Federalsburg, Maryland 21632
(MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE...THE DELMARVA PENINSULA)

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