In a message dated 8/9/2009 7:42:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bluecaliocean@me.com writes:
What if I live in a place where there isn't any library for hours (or days even) via whatever transportation I have available?
What if I have a library...but it's under-resourced, under-paid and there's no way I can really get books or newsletter to help cite wikipedia?
What would I do then? Do I just not verify citations?>>
------------- Hypothetical. We don't require a system where any editor can verify any citation. We also don't want a system where a vanishingly small number of editors can verify *a* citation. We want something in the middle.
Your library itself does not need the item. That is why God created Inter-Library Loan. Get jiggy with it. It solves many problems. Provided you know the repository, and provided the item circulates at all, you can order it to come to you. You don't have to go to it.
Will Johnson
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In a message dated 8/9/2009, bluecaliocean@me.com writes:
What if I live in a place where there isn't any library for hours (or days even) via whatever transportation I have available?
What if I have a library...but it's under-resourced, under-paid and there's no way I can really get books or newsletter to help cite wikipedia?
What would I do then? Do I just not verify citations?>>
Hypothetical. We don't require a system where any editor can verify any citation. We also don't want a system where a vanishingly small number of editors can verify *a* citation. We want something in the middle.
Your library itself does not need the item. That is why God created Inter-Library Loan. Get jiggy with it. It solves many problems. Provided you know the repository, and provided the item circulates at all, you can order it to come to you. You don't have to go to it.
There are fees that go with interlibrary loans. If you only need to look at one sentence of a book to verify a statement, you still need to consider cost-effectiveness before you spend money to send a book across the country.
We would welcome Emily's verifications if she were in a position to make them, but her inability in the circumstances described is a fact of life. She can only verify what is within her means. If a work is rare or unique that should not disqualify it as a reference. Most of these rare works will be in large cities where there will also be a concentration of people available to verify the material. For much of our material the acceptance criterion validly remains verifiable rather than verified.
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