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You get what you pay for…
Filed Under (Information Literacy, School Librarianship) by mbrandt on 04-11-2009 and tagged free, Internet, New York Times
“You get what you pay for” is a folk wisdom that has proven true again and again. It becomes a useful phrase once again when attempting to teach information literacy and evaluation of resources. Yes, there is a great deal of wonderful FREE information on the Internet, but the quality of that “free” information must always be suspect.
The New York Times is getting the message. Check it out:
Encyclopaedia Britannica helps prove that with information, you often get what you pay for
