Wednesday, June 15, 2005
The Ultimate in FREE Research....
A newspaper publisher reminded me of this: you don't **have** to register for the NY Times or many other online newpapers to access their archives or articles. Here's how:
Get a local library card. Then, go visit your local library's URL. Depending on your library, you can enter your card number and access hundreds of online newspapers, archives, databases, and research tools....without the hassle of registering for the news sites' "free" registrations.
(Hurray! This means no passwords to remember! No email onslaughts begging you to subscribe for a fee! No micropayments for accessing archives! Those three represent the real cost of "free" registration at many of the news and research sites!)
My Kent County Library Card here in Grand Rapids Michigan is just fabby. I can have one stop shopping for most of my presentation research needs. I keep my library card number handy, in a word file on my computer (just in case I don't have my handy library card on my person!)
Cut, copy, paste: and I'm researching hundreds of sites for free! Wheeee!
Public libraries ROCK!
A newspaper publisher reminded me of this: you don't **have** to register for the NY Times or many other online newpapers to access their archives or articles. Here's how:
Get a local library card. Then, go visit your local library's URL. Depending on your library, you can enter your card number and access hundreds of online newspapers, archives, databases, and research tools....without the hassle of registering for the news sites' "free" registrations.
(Hurray! This means no passwords to remember! No email onslaughts begging you to subscribe for a fee! No micropayments for accessing archives! Those three represent the real cost of "free" registration at many of the news and research sites!)
My Kent County Library Card here in Grand Rapids Michigan is just fabby. I can have one stop shopping for most of my presentation research needs. I keep my library card number handy, in a word file on my computer (just in case I don't have my handy library card on my person!)
Cut, copy, paste: and I'm researching hundreds of sites for free! Wheeee!
Public libraries ROCK!
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