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Google the Library

See the difference between a web page and a database

Start with any search engine. As an example, we'll use Google to look for the Everett Community College Library web site. Google shows the library's web site because it has "crawled" the web, found the link to Everett Community College Library web site, and added the link to its own database.

Now use Google to find a book in this library:

Zero hits. A search engine cannot "crawl" the library's database of books (book catalog). The library's web site is part of the open Web. The library's catalog is in the deep Web. Next >>

IRIS 4-2 is an Information Literacy project developed with a grant from the Distance Learning Council of Washington, 2007-2008. Some content, images and activites were inspired by, and/or copied/adapted from TILT: The Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (no longer available). IRIS 4-2 is available for adaptation under the terms of the Creative Commons License.

This version of IRIS 4-2 includes modifications made by Linda Zuvich, Library IT Specialist, Everett Community College Library. An unmodified version may be found at http://www.clark.edu/Library/iris.