Education on the Internet -
Best Sites

What makes a good website?

1. Authority

Who's responsible?

• Census Bureau or Unofficial Home Pages

How reliable?

• National Cancer Institute or Internet Health Resources

2. Content

How comprehensive?

• Labyrinth Library: Middle English Bookcase or Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations

How current?

• Holt's Daily Stock Market Reports or Small Business Profile of New Jersey 1995

3. Organization

What organization?

• Worldwide Internet Music Resources or International Affairs Resources

How searchable?

• Shareware.Com or Electronic Resources for Medieval Studies

How would you evaluate a website?

• Evaluating the Credibility of WWW Sources (A. Nadine Burke)
• How to Critically Evaluate Information Sources (Cornell University Library)
• Evaluating Web Resources (Tate and Alexander, Widener University)
• Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources
  by Marsha Tate and Jan Alexander, Computers in Libraries 16, 10 (Nov/Dec 1996) pp.49-55.