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wikipedia disliked by librarians because it operates without privilege?

Posted on 05Jan05 by jessamyn

A quick nod to librarians in a longer article about Wikipedia. What do you think of this quote?

Of course librarians, teachers, and academics don’t like the Wikipedia. It works without privilege, which is inimical to the way those professions operate.
Posted in 'puters

tsunami info in libraries

Posted on 05Jan05 by jessamyn

Edmonton Public Library has a great page of resources for the tsunami disaster including a premade link to a catalog search for tsunami in the OPAC. [thanks kerry]

Posted in libraries

as Salinas goes, so it goes @ your library

Posted on 05Jan05 by jessamyn

Salinas California is going to be the largest city in the US without a public library, setting a bad trend, I think. Mike McGrorty has a few suggestions of how to help. [thanks dsdlc]

Posted in libcrisis

we read – more booklists

Posted on 05Jan05 by jessamyn

A few more booklists: Jenica, librainiac, Anirvan [who runs bookfinder], Marissa, Rochelle, lazygal & Carolyne.

Posted in books

add project gutenberg titles to your OPAC

Posted on 03Jan05 by jessamyn

Did you know you can add Project Gutenberg titles to your library catalog? The list of titles is now available in MARC format [or should be any minute now]. A few more PG feeds at this address.

Posted in books

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