Within the next two years the Berkeley Library became involved in the Info People project. This was a project that's goal was to "improve the quality of information access to the people of California by upgrading skills, resources and tools available through libraries" (www.infopeople.org). Leita was hired as the internet librarian to coordinate the project, administer the system and to train the staff. ... According to the project coordinator of Info People, Holly Hinman the librarians of California are so excited about indexing that there is always a waiting list. I believe this is ...

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Now, people do not need to carry heavy encyclopedia books because of the web. ... Many students rely on web when there is something they do not understand or if there is something they want to know without bothering others, whether it is assignments, quizzes, or projects. ... Unlike before, people do not need to go to the library and search for hundreds or even thousands of pages of books and encyclopedias just to write a thesis paper. ...

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History books tell us that this was the beginning of radio broadcasting as we know it today."7 Radio also had effect on people during the Great Depression. ... "Internet radio is far from a finished project."12 Digital satellite radio provides the listener with crystal clear radio reception from far away locations. ...

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This Internet link began as the United States military project Agency Network Advanced Research (ARPANET) during the Vietnam War in 1969. ... Portelli and Mead state by the year 2002, the reported number of children who access the Internet from home is projected to increase from the current 10 million to 20 million (6). ... (fun facts, coloring books, etc.). ...

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Entire collections of electronic content can be searched quickly, easily and efficiently, eliminating hours of searching for printed volumes and checking indexes for topics of interest, they do not have to waste time looking for materials in the sea of books. ... For more convenient programming, graphical user interfaces (GUIs) first began to appear in the early 1980's and became widespread by the end of the decade; GUIs now account for half or more of the total effort in many programming projects. ...

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There are tens of thousands of free books available on websites like "Project Gutenberg", hundreds of essays are published online every day, and the footnotes section on any Wikipedia page is a gold mine when trying to learn more about literally anything. ...

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