And then, more are hungry for information. He adds that with the technology's fluid nature, researchers must keep in mind that Web sites can change quickly. Also, some educators and historians worry that because of the lack of information verification online, that some data may be tampered with or phoney. It happens in libraries too, not just online. There may be a neo-racist perspective where the facts are correct but the interpretation is skewed.
Love cautions browsers to be discerning when checking out information online.
She noted that sites with the .edu suffix aren't necessarily the best because an educational institution oversees them. Some information on those sites is intended for classroom lesson plan use or student projects, not general research. Even with high-speed connectors online, the research can be painstaking, but it is well worth the time to see and sometimes hear pieces of black history. There also are links to the Library of Congress' archives on African Americans and other people of color. The varied collections on the Library of Congress site seem exhaustive, and what it doesn't have, it links to on other sites.