http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2007/12/wikipedia-is-good-enough-good-grief/ Ideas on interconnections, identity, and information from all sides. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:03:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2007/12/wikipedia-is-good-enough-good-grief/comment-page-1/#comment-50150 Librarianship First Principles | PomeRantz Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:02:24 +0000 http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2007/12/wikipedia-is-good-enough-good-grief/#comment-50150 [...] Libraries used to be about the only game in town here, but no longer: commercial help desks and social Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers have cut into that market. The edge that libraries have here is (1) that libraries have access to source materials (see points 1 & 2, above), and (2) that librarians care a lot about providing quality information and helping the user. Edge #1 is important, but less critical than it used to be, since see point 2 above. Edge #2 is critical, but librarians often trip over that one: as a profession we’re not very good at acknowledging that good enough is good enough. [...] [...] Libraries used to be about the only game in town here, but no longer: commercial help desks and social Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers have cut into that market. The edge that libraries have here is (1) that libraries have access to source materials (see points 1 & 2, above), and (2) that librarians care a lot about providing quality information and helping the user. Edge #1 is important, but less critical than it used to be, since see point 2 above. Edge #2 is critical, but librarians often trip over that one: as a profession we’re not very good at acknowledging that good enough is good enough. [...]

]]> http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2007/12/wikipedia-is-good-enough-good-grief/comment-page-1/#comment-28401 Stephen Ewen Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:42:15 +0000 http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2007/12/wikipedia-is-good-enough-good-grief/#comment-28401 Also, your post strikes as if coming from this fellow: http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10111776/Success.htm Also, your post strikes as if coming from this fellow: http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd–10111776/Success.htm

]]> http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2007/12/wikipedia-is-good-enough-good-grief/comment-page-1/#comment-28400 Stephen Ewen Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:35:14 +0000 http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2007/12/wikipedia-is-good-enough-good-grief/#comment-28400 Should you or a loved one need surgery or face serious illness sometime, I sincerely hope you will both *want* and obtain more than what is "good enough". Should you or a loved one need surgery or face serious illness sometime, I sincerely hope you will both *want* and obtain more than what is “good enough”.

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