I was hopping through the blogosphere last night and came across a number of posts on Christina’s LIS Rant about Wikipedia’s authority in light of the recent discussion when several bloggers sabotaged the source to learn how quickly it would rebound. Frustration with accuracy by formula I’m not the only one rushing to defend Wikipedia [...]
The library job database the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners maintains now offers an RSS feed for new listings. Noticed on Library Stuff
sj posts some follow up comments from the librarian interviewed for the Syracuse Post-Standard article slamming Wikipedia. The reporter based his negative column on some comments she made. It seems she meant them in a somewhat different fashion. "I just re-read what I originally sent to Al Fasoldt in the recent Post-Standard column. I’m afraid [...]
Banned Books Week is one of my favorite library-related celebrations. I’ve probably said this a hundred times in this space, but one of the big reasons I became a librarian is to support intellectual freedom. Some people think it’s a appropriate to prevent others from reading materials they find objectionable. Perhaps they never think that [...]
All four of us across the United States (that I know of). We can help with fact checking and all sorts of things, too, related to the universities at which we work.
A letter to the editor from Wikipedia contributor Samuel Klein points out that Encyclopedia Britannica has a disclaimer similar to the one Dr. Dale Hoiberg made fun of in the September 9th Washington Post article. “Britannica’s editors are among those who take a skeptical view, noting that Wikipedia publishes a disclaimer stating that it does [...]
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