Alabama Virtual Library

The Alabama Virtual Library is an online format of a library limited to Alabama residents, which has multiple resources for people to use when they want to look up scholarly or credited infromation. It can help people from all levels, whether they be in elementary school, middle school, high school, college and the general public. Its resources range from journal articles to book passages to encyclopedia sources, like Britanica and others and so on. The finder can search for their information through search engines in each resource icon they click on and it will give them a list, if specified information is available of the related resource titles to choose. The searcher can also find information based on topics, whether Adult Education, Business, English, etc. Conclusively, the Alabama Virtual Library is a very resourceful source for researchers.

The Alabama Virtual Library can help me as an educator by giving me the vast access to all theses resources relating to what I am teaching, to help strengthen my knowledge, and hence the knowledge of my students. It can make me be able to let my students use the resources to search for information, whether it be for a paper or a test or just for the sake of knowledge, and therefore helping my students expand their minds and their researche skills. They and I can strengthen our research skills , by our constant use of it and by knowing which database to use and which resource to use for what information, which can surely make us better researchers and writers. My helping my students be the latter, that would make me a better educator. It also gives students home access to the library and therefore access to secondary sources, if some may have a hard time getting transportation. In addition it makes researching easier for them, than having to find books in libraries and fully read them for a tediuos purpose, making it a matter of convenience. Conclusively, all of the above shows that the Alabama Virtual Library is a very important resource for education, for reasons of education, research, convenience, etc.