I’ve been sitting on a few stories about Wikipedia and just haven’t had the opportunity to say much about them.
First, is this story from a newspaper in Charleston, Illinois. It basically says that some people are actually using Wikipedia as a teaching instrument. Oh my gosh! How horrible! Oh wait, that’s sarcasm. Yes, of course people should be using it as a teaching tool and “springboard” to further research. It’s the people who are totally against it that are, in my opinion, doing students a disservice. Instead of being proactively teaching students critical thinking with a tool with which they’re familiar, some tell students no. To me, that goes against what information literacy is all about. Not to mention that libraries and librarians are always saying “free access” and “non-discriminatory” access to information. Let students make up tehir minds on what is useful and what is not. But,...
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The Oxford ProjectFrom: ericjennings.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-16 16:58:14
I just finished reading Denison, Iowa which is a great cultural and anthropological study of one American town. It’s not just about the town, but it’s about us, as Americans as we move well into the 21st century and deal with things like the death of small towns, immigration, etc. It is a great book and if you haven’t read it I highly recommend it.
In the same light, I am happy to hear that the Oxford Project book was released today. I remember hearing about it in ...
more (Not) Retaining government informationFrom: ericjennings.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-14 16:03:12
The New York Times does a nice job describing what is going on in the halls of government …err…what is not going on. They’re not preserving as much of the information that gets created via email or posted to websites as they should. Now, I don’t claim to know all that should be kept, but there are things besides email or posts to websites that might need to be kept too. There are members of congress (or at the very least their staffers) who Twitter . ...
more Google Digitizing Newspaper ArchivesFrom: ericjennings.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-12 06:21:14
I know this story isn’t new but it did come out earlier this week. And, it does have major implications on libraries. I can’t fault Google for trying to Digitize newspaper archives. It’s a great idea. As I reported almost one year ago to the day, the Library of Congress is also digitizing old newspapers. What is great about these two ventures is that they will not just be the full text but they will be images that you can see in the context in which they were o...
more E-newspaperFrom: ericjennings.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-09 17:43:02
Instead of the ebook, we now have the epaper. Or, we will . ( Wired has better pictures of what this thing looks like than the Times.) I think this is a good thing. I have not been totally sold on the ebook if you are a regular reader of this blog, but epaper is a different thing. Perhaps I should rephrase it and say this is the enewspaper, not just epaper in the sense that it is an electronic piece of paper that will replace the standard 8.5×11. Why do I think this i...
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