Comments from Ninth Graders at Narragansett High School

 “I think that these are good ways to find information.  I didn’t know about any of this before.  This is a great way to find a book if you’re in a bind and can’t find any information in our school library’s books.  I think that throughout my years of high school and college, I may think of using these resources.  RILINK is one of the things I may use more.  I am used to going to Google to find my information.”

“I like how we found out everything at one time.  I learned a lot about websites.  I enjoyed learning how to use all the websites.  I like how you can get books from other schools.”

“RILINK is good for finding different books and will help me all year.”

“I think that all of these websites are an extremely good idea and informative to all students.  They are very easy to use and make looking up research much easier and more efficient.  They allow a much wider variety of books and articles to find information.  I liked RILINK the best, because I think it is the easiest to operate.”

I found out that RILINK was very helpful and easy navigating site.  I went to it, found what I was looking for, and left in a short period of time.  GO RILINK!”

“These sites would probably be very easy and useful to do a report.  The sites worked quickly, and it was easy to find everything.  They also looked appealing.  My favorite site is RILINK.”

“I learned what to use to get a book from a different school.  I also learned how to get a book from a different library.”

“What was good for me is I got to learn about different ways to borrow books, not just from this school library.”

“It was good to know all the websites.  I never knew there were so many search sites.  I liked RILINK best.”

“I learned a lot from this experience.  I learned how to navigate CLAN, RILINK, GaleGroup, and OPAC.  These are definitely going to help me one way or another sometime in the future.  All of the programs were really easy to use.”

“I think all these sites are going to be very helpful to me over the course of high school.  OPAC seems very helpful and will be important when I need to use a book.  RILINK is very helpful and all these book searches were easy to do.”

“I thought RILINK, CLAN, OPAC, and GaleGroup were all very easy and helpful to find books and information on research topics.  In the future I will remember these sites for my high school career.”

“RILINK was very helpful, and I will probably use it again.  CLAN was helpful, and I will use it again.  The presentation was very helpful, because it explained everything we need to know.”

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After I did the orientation to the high school media center with the ninth graders, I had them do an exercise and write a little reflection. 
        Donna Good, Library Media Specialist, Narragansett High School.

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October 25, 2005.