Absolutely - all sources need to be checked! I have a book that I use
to demonstrate that fact: put out by a well-known publisher 7-8 years
ago, and part of a series that got great reviews at the time, it is a
book about the state of Maryland, and on the map page it shows
Maryland on the........Pacific Ocean. Labelled in big black type. I
wave that book in the air, show them the page and remind them that ALL
information needs to be checked, and rechecked. ("That's why it's
called re-search!")
Cathy
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Cathy Rettberg
Head Librarian, Menlo School
Atherton, CA
crettberg@menloschool.org
On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Barbara COMBES wrote:
> Mmm ... I wasn't going to buy into this one, but we met one of the
> editors at the ASLA Conference in 2007. He had been editing Wikipedia
> for 3 years. Guess what - he was a 17 Y.O. schoolboy. There have also
> been a number of articles over the last few years about the quality of
> the editors and the editing process.
>
> Guess the major point we need to teach the kids here is that Wikipedia
> is a resources and like any resource - print or electronic, we need to
> verify the accuracy and authority of the source. Just because it is in
> print or even on a govt site does not make it factually correct. We
> ned
> to check the validity of the information and not rely on shortcut
> methods. Using several sources by different authors and checking their
> qualifications to make such statements is one way - using and
> information specialist (aka Librarian type person) is another.
> :)
> BC
>
>
> Vice President, Advocacy & Promotion, IASL: www.iasl-online.org
> LIS@ECU: http://www.chs.ecu.edu.au/portals/LIS/index.php
> Australian School Library Research Project:
> http://www.chs.ecu.edu.au/portals/ASLRP/
> Barbara Combes, Lecturer
> School of Computer and Information Science Edith Cowan University,
> Perth
> Western Australia
> Ph: (08) 9370 6072
> Email: b.combes@ecu.edu.au
>
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> that
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> At an NEH workshop last summer, I spoke with representatives of the
> National Endowment for the Humanities about Wikipedia. They told me
> their frustration was that only a small part of it may be edited at
> one
> time, so it is never quite up to date. They tried to edit the page
> about NEH so that it was current but were not permitted to edit enough
> to make it so. I've used that example with my students as a reason
> why
> not to use Wikipedia.
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