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[Oldak Quill]

2009/3/4 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
> Two words: interlibrary loan.
>
> -Durova

That gives me an idea. Some users live in rural areas far away from
large book repositories, with little capacity to check off-line
resources, while other users live in metropolitan centres with dozens
of vast libraries a bus ride away.

Is there a page on Wikipedia where one user (a rural user, let's
presume), can ask for an offline reference to be checked ("can you
check this page of this book for this statement/fact")? If not, might
it be a useful service to offer?

I, for example, live in London and have easy access to a number of
large university libraries and the British Library (if the resource is
especially obscure). It would also be possible to scan in the relevant
page of a PD/uncopyrighted book, as proof of the reference, for
example.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)