Media Center
Sources of Information
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OSH Print and Non Print Collections |
Online Subscription Databases |
Free Internet Sites |
| Materials housed in the OSH Media Center. Included are: Books (non fiction, fiction, reference, childrens, biographies, oversize), maps, video tapes, kits, magazines . | Fee based electronic databases dedicated to specific topics. Examples include: magazines, newspapers. Encyclopedias, health topics, issues, country statistics………… These are print resources viewed electronically | Electronic information. Included are commercial sites (.com), educational sites (.edu), organizational sites (.org), governmental sites (.gov), personal sites (~)… |
| Located using the electronic card catalog called Spectrum. | Located by URL. Password protected or IP recognized. OSH students can access OSH subscriptions. Henn. Cty. Residents can access Henn. Cty. Subscriptions. | Located by URL or through web search engines (Google, Excite, Yahoo….). |
| OSH students and staff are the intended audience. | Intended audience varies depending on the intent of the database. Examples are: K-12 students, doctors, reporters, college students… | Intended audience varies depending on the intent of the site- could be anyone. |
| Checked out at OSH. | Viewed electronically/printed. | Viewed electronically/printed. |
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Selection process used for materials to insure they are age appropriate, related to curriculum, and published by reliable sources. Must be careful of dated information. |
. The institutional subscriber uses a selection process. Reliability of the source is usually very important to subscribers. |
YOU are the selector of sites and must screen them yourself to determine reliability. Some sites have highly reliable and contain useful information (Center for Disease Control). Other sites are totally unreliable or even bogus. |
There are plusses and minuses to each type of source. Can you think of some of these?
