Reading Report #4

The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer an Appetizing Alternative to Google
10/22/09

This article tells more on the divide of research through good information and the use of easy information like that of google. The author uses the example of like everything in America being made in to the Supersize me lifestyle. College students want their research to be made easy and timeless. Google is the solution to this and has been for years. The problem that it creates is that college students are no longer using real research for their papers and instead using the easy information off of Google. Librarians say this is making young people lazier and that the eminence databases that they have are becoming useless. The author says that the solution to this problem is to make the databases more "Googlized". In other words, make the databases easier to use and not so complex just for an easy research paper. Databases like ProQuest have been making this drive in the right direction and are leading the way in making their information easier to access. The author finishes by saying that everyone is going to have to be involved in making the drive to continue to use research databases.
Most of the world is becoming more "Googlized". My generation has grown up with the easy of access to everything. We have been about to contact our friends instantly online or via text message so is it a wonder that we would want our information the same way. The world that we live in is a "Googlized" world. This doesn't make it right that we want everything to work like that but, at the same time it kind of is expected now. The more that these databases are made "Googlized" means the more that we will use them. I know that I hate to have to spend twenty minutes just trying to access the information so that I can read and evaluate it. The more information is easily accessed means the more that we will use it and make use of the money that the school is spending on these databases.