I have come across other web sites that NetTrecker provided that were not
all that wonderful. Maybe NetTrecker needs to go?
Lorraine Smith MLS, MEd.
Librarian
Lake Pointe Elementary, Lake Travis ISD
Austin, TX 78738
http://lorraine-smith.edublogs.org/
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lininger" <tss003@TNP.MORE.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Wikipedia
> Gail's school mail wrote:
>
>>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 suspect that "many librarians actually like Wikipedia information" is
> intended to make you feel that you are the oddball if you filter Wikipedia
> out, since they are putting it in.
>
>>The man I spoke to at Nettrekker said
>>that many librarians were just as passionate that the information in
>>Nettrekker deserved to be there.
>>
>
> Not according to the comments that were here a few weeks ago!
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I suspect that some of this is just our society that doesn't want to
> "judge" anything.
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I don't subscribe to Nettrekker, but if enough of you who do delete
> Wikipedia and tell Nettrekker you have done so maybe they will get the
> message.
>
> --
> David Lininger, kb0zke,
> MS/HS librarian
> Hickory County R-1 Schools
> Urbana, MO 65767
> 417-993-4226
> tss003 at tnp dot more dot net
>
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