On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:01 PM, David Goodman dgoodmanny@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