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Understand location, location …

Every item in the library has its own call number.

Every image, file, page, or program on the World Wide Web has its own individual location.

To find these online items, you need the Web address, called a Uniform Resource Locator or URL.

The URL identifies the computer, directory, and file where an item is located and the type of protocol needed to read or decipher the code in which that item was written.

CAUTION: Capitalisation, punctuation, and spacing must be exact for a URL to work.

REASON: There are millions of resources out in the Web – change just 1 digit or letter, and you'll end up in ...

 

 

 


... the wrong place or no place!

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