elise blas AND librar*

A few weeks ago while in Denver, I heard someone say “Google it on youtube.”

Let’s just put it out there that I am not against Google in most circumstances. For a quick, superficial answer, Google is great. I had to look up “silver nitrate” last week and rather than log into a library’s databases, figure out which database would work, and find a detailed scientific answer my liberal arts mind wouldn’t understand anyway, I looked it up through Google.

I did not say “I Googled it.”

Google has done some great things to make finding information easier. It has also done some not-so-great things to make finding misinformation easier. The key is to know how to discern what is good information and what is junk.

At times like this, I look forward to the global information infrastructure, which theoretically will have little junk information. Perhaps that is just my personal wish. And there will be no “Googling” anything.

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