On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:01 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I worked for many years running (among other things)
an interlibrary
loan system. Any librarian in at least the US who says that a free or
inexpensive copy is not available for anything other than a rare book
or an expensive art or reference book is not doing their job right.
The main problem with the system with respect to Wikipedia is that
most libraries work very slowly, so it can take some weeks--and
therefore cannot be used in a Wikipedia debate, which is typically
closed in a few days (or hours).,
Returning to an issue weeks later when the book has arrived and when
it has dropped off people's watchlists (if they keep them tidy) can
have its advantages, though. Unless the article got deleted, of
course.
Carcharoth