Archive for December 15th, 2005

Harvard Librarians’ Assembly: Back to Class: What are librarians learning and is it what they need?

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

I’m in the Harvard University Library’s Librarians’ Assembly Fall Meeting. The topic is one we’ve been discussing on and off: “What are librarians learning and is it what they need?”
Although notices have been going out about the meeting for a while, I forgot what the topic is. Today, I finished reading some of the articles [...]

Nature Investigates Britannica and Wikipedia

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

The journal Nature publishes a news item comparing Encyclopedia Britannica with Wikipedia and finds them close in accuracy. Of the examined science articles, Britannica’s content averaged about 3 errors per article. Wikipedia’s averaged about 4. The study doesn’t sound very scientific: it’s a very small sample of content on both of the encyclopedia’s Web sites.
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