SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND LEARNING RESOURCES

SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND LEARNING RESOURCES

SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND LEARNING RESOURCES

Literature Library

Literature.org offers full and unabridged texts of English literature throughout the history. it involves a blend of novels, poetry, fiction and of Anne, Charlotte and Emily as well as other writers Mark Twain, Charles Dickens (www.literature.org).

The free library

The entire collection assembled by library patrons, it is a network that performsw a useful educational function - Free e-books allow people of any age, any social and economic status see the priceless literary and artistic heritage of mankind. The section offers free artistic, educational and technical books and books of various genres: detective fiction, Russian and foreign literature, poetry, and poetry, romance novels, children's literature, women's erotic literature, fantasy, etc (www.thefreelibrary.com/).

Osho Library

It offers free e-books, books for PDAs, as well as poetry and prose online. The literature is presented here offers a reading of only as a reference and our web site is not of a commercial orientation. The treasures of religious scholars and knowledge can be found with thousands of files, video lectures and courses of tens of thousands of programs (www.osho.com/library/).

Wiley Online Library

Previously, the ability to read was only in the higher strata of the population. But over time, writing was becoming more accessible, and today, thanks to the Internet, a man opened almost the entire world of books. Such a thing as an electronic library five years ago was a novelty, but today you can enjoy your favourite pieces that are assembled on one site. Wiley Online Library is designed to enable you to quickly find a book for every taste. The free online library is easy to use and finding the right material. It contains a collection of books of different genres and styles from around the world, as well as new books, which fill up the library every day (Quinlan 2006, 37-47). It offers an opportunity to maintain the necessary books, textbooks, magazines, newspapers, video tutorials, fb2 books, and more, simply downloading them to your computer. Also works evaluation system whereby if you do not know what to read, you can choose the most popular at the moment of the book, as well as to evaluate their own (www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com).

Critiques

Employment of online resources in United Kingdom at the high school, college, and university levels is in a significant growth phase. By fall term 2008, there were 4.8 million students in 2,500 UK Universities taking at least one online course. This is a 50% increase in the number of students from 3.2 million in fall 2005 and an increase of 14% in the number of institutions from the same time period. Among potential future college and university students, in 2009 at least 27% of high school students in the U.K. were enrolled in one online course, an increase of 14% compared to 2008 (Bassoppo 2006, 7-22).

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Role of Electronic Resources in School Library

Online resources help individual in learning at their own pace depending upon if learner is fast or slow in picking up the ...