Internet Searching: The Modern Day Indexing File at the Library

While in grade school I was taught how to effectively use the library index files to find books on anything they had in the library. Over the years I have read likely close to 2000 books. My mom was a big reader and often times had me heading off to the library to retrieve seven or eight books a night - yes a night. She would read a 1000 plus page book in about five hours or so and be starting on a second one before falling to sleep. When it comes to finding a good book to read the library is a great place to go.

However what about researching material for writing an essay or doing an article like this one your reading now? Even though you could still head off to the library and found a lot of the information you're looking for, there are other options for people like myself. It is called the internet.

Over the last five years I have started depending more and more on the internet for my source of information. No matter what I may be looking for I will likely find something somewhere online that will fill my needs.

When I am looking for the who's who in a movie that I've seen on television I head to www.Imdb.com. By typing in the name of a movie or the name of one of the actors or actresses I am quickly re-directed to that movie. There I will find a list with most of the actors who star in that movie. My ex-father-in-law use to ask me to look in his book of about 5000 pages of movies to see who starred in a movie. I spend hours sometimes trying to find a movie he would be looking for but only had the name of one or two of the main stars. Had I used the internet I could have been done in about five minutes. I could have also headed to the library and used their many books but that would have cost more time and gas to get there. Plus I would have to go during business hours when their open. As you are likely aware many of us watch movies well after normal business hours. So heading off to the library isn't an option in this case. The internet is always available and always open.