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Citation
Anh Tran, L. (2001), "The Student’s Guide to the Internet 2000‐2001 (3rd ed.)", Online Information Review, Vol. 25 No. 1, pp. 66-74. https://doi.org/10.1108/oir.2001.25.1.66.5
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
The Internet and information networking have changed the educational methods used in institutions. Presently, one new trend is distance learning or open learning used by a large number of universities and schools. The mechanisms of distance learning comprise collaborating, discussion groups, electronic referencing, and multimedia. This book intends to support students and academic staff to make the best use of the Internet for studying and education referencing. Resource guides are helpful to all students, no matter what levels they are, full‐time or part‐time courses, beginning or advanced Internet users, and of whatever age.
The book contains 14 sections, but the contents can be seen as two main groups –“Concepts of the Internet” and “Educational resource guide”. The first four sections explain the concepts of the Internet. Students can use this to understand what the Internet is about and its key components.
Librarians and beginning users can learn the main functions of Internet components for communicating, searching references, electronic books and journals, and for information exchange. In terms of accessing and using information resources, librarians and users are comfortable with the two most famous Internet browsers – Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. Really, this “Basics” part covers comprehensive concepts and provides a general understanding of the Internet that is useful to librarians and new users who want to know about the Internet.
Clearly, the “Concepts of the Internet” in this book were split into four small sections, but their contents are almost the same as the first part of The Public Librarian’s Guide to the Internet (Criddle, McNab, Ormes and Winship; Library Association Publishing; 2000).
Both authors are experienced in managing the development of Internet information resources and in training courses on Internet use.