Good morning all,
I guess I must confess to plain stupidity in this whole question. Why, why,
why, would we as librarians be supportive of a reference source when there
is any question about the validity of the information. Now I am not so
naïve as to think that all other "recognized " sources are always accurate,
but in this case it is clear right up front there will be inaccuracies.
Granted apparently there is some system for correcting mis-information. But
if little Johnny is using Wikipedia at 10:00 and an inaccuracy was placed
there at 9:55 then he is not going to know that by tomorrow it will be
different. Why bother with this as a reference source?
Now granted I am in a college prep high school where we place a lot of
emphasis of academic research, so I can see how grade school people might
have different feelings.
Cheryl Quinn
Librarian
St. Viator High School
Arlington Heights, IL
cquinn@saintviator.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacqueline Henry [mailto:jhenry@GANANDA.ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:32 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: More fodder for the wiki-wars
Every time I start feeling better about Wikipedia as a resource -
something else happens....
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/31578/
I might as well resign myself to be permanently ambivalent about it.
Jacquie
"The Librarian, whose job is to heal ignorance, to keep life safe for
poetry and to put knowledge smack dab in the middle of the American
way."
From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-20-03
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Jacquie Henry, MLS
Ruben A. Cirillo High School (GHS)
Gananda Central School District
3195 Wiedrick Road
P.O. Box 609
Macedon, NY 14502
315-986-3521 x 3144
jhenry@gananda.org
Library Page: http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/indexgcl.htm
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