The site allows young patrons to pose their query as a question using plain, uncomplicated language. There also is an option to broaden one's search by using AltaVista, Infoseek, Lycos, Webcrawler, Excite, and Yahooligans. The Ask Jeeves for Kids site claims to be the safest and easiest way for children to access the Internet. The parent site, Ask Jeeves , is designed similarly to Ask Jeeves for Kids and is appropriate for middle to high school-aged children. The Internet Public Library Youth Services and Teens divisions, hosted by the School of Information Science at the University of Michigan, is truly a treasure trove of digital resources for K-12 students.
Today there are quite a few full-text encyclopedias and almanacs available to online searchers.
Com , Encyclopedia Brittanica , and Encarta Online that are absolutely free. Encarta not only provides access to more than 16,000 articles, but to an online dictionary and atlas as well. Homework help pages are useful resources that are critical to have available for patrons to acess online, especially after library hours. To keep up with the technological explosion, youth services librarians will need to develop and maintain their knowledge of the plethora of available online resources, in particular those that are specifically targeted for junior audiences. User Services Association's Ad Hoc Committee on Reference Service to Children.