Why spend limited resources on Nettrekker when it is providing information students
would find themselves in a simple Internet search? Regardless of whether the
information on Wikipedia is accurate, I think this is a separate, valid question.
IMO, if we are paying for a subscription database, the information should be better
in some way than the information we can get for free on the Internet.
Jennifer Davidson
jdavidson@solomon393.k12.ks.us
Library Media Specialist
Solomon Elementary
Solomon, KS
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU]On Behalf Of Gail's school mail
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:22 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] Wikipedia
Wikipedia
I know our listserv has exhausted the subject of Wikipedia in recent months,
but I found Wikipedia information listed in our Nettrekker Online Database
and called Nettrekker to find out why they include information that is not
accurate from Wikipedia. I was told that in a few weeks I, as administrator,
would have the right to go in and filter out Wikipedia, and that so many
librarians actually like Wikipedia information. I am passionate that if
information is being used in HS research papers and that information is NOT
correct, then they should not use it. Our teachers do not allow students to
cite from Wikipedia for this reason. The man I spoke to at Nettrekker said
that many librarians were just as passionate that the information in
Nettrekker deserved to be there. So it's there. Are we as librarians,
NUTS!!! Don't we value and teach Accuracy, Credibility, Authority, Currency
and Coverage. Has information gotten so white-washed that anything goes? Not
here at my school. I have to rethink continuing to spend money on the
Nettrekker online database because I am pushing it as a research tool that
is better than to using Google.
Gail Borio
High School Librarian
CAK High School
Knoxville, TN 37923
865-690-4721
gaborio@esper.com
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