Have you used Wikipedia at all with your library? As librarians the big joke is that Wikipedia is over used and we have a tendency to hate it. However, in the last few months there have been several articles and ideas about how to use Wikipedia to your favor and to help students see how Wikipedia can be used and how Wikipedia can teach them lessons about the accuracy and sometimes inaccuracy of many things online.

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div > What do you think about Wikipedia and libraries? I know as a library school student wikipedia was always approached as a taboo website and viewed as bad. But it is really all bad? I thought this article was interesting.
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clipped from www.infotoday.com What to Do With Wikipedia By William Badke, Trinity Western University If you want to get five opinions from four information professionals, just mention Wikipedia. Often banned by professors, panned by traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just about everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast, growing larger and more commanding every day. With no paid editors and written by almost anyone, it shouldn’t have succeeded, but it has. In fact, it’s now emerged as the No. 1 go-to information source in the world. It’s used not only by the great unwashed but also by many educated people as well. ONLINE reported on the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s findings that 36% of the American population regularly consult Wikipedia (July/August 2007, p. 6). Admit it—you use Wikipedia too. Someone c

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