Actually, some of the most enthusiastic Wikipedians I know are librarians.. In the Netherlands we even had a wiki project called Wiki Loves Bieb (Bieb is nickname for Bibliotheek or library): http://wikilovesbieb.nl/ Jane
2012/5/16 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> > On 2012-05-15 16:21, Andrea Zanni wrote: > >> I think that the world of libraries is gonna be next, but I see a lot of >> issues too: >> libraries are in the middle of a disruption, the Internet has been really >> "though" on them. >> > > In the Swedish Wikipedia, the articles on libraries, librarianship, and > library science are very short, poorly written and without references. > It's obvious that library school students aren't wikipedians, in the > way that soccer fans or physics teachers are. The free encyclopedia > attracts more textile craft and fashion nerds than librarians. > > Sweden is a protestant and largely secular country, but the > Swedish Wikipedia has detailed articles about every Catholic pope. > Meanwhile, the list of directors of our national library has red links, > http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Lista_%C3%B6ver_svenska_** > riksbibliotekarier<http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%B6ver_svenska_riksbibliotekarier> > > I don't think the Swedish Wikipedia is unique in this. > > Nemo mentioned that IFLA conferences are expensive to go to. Yes. > The problem is that we are considering the registration fee, instead > of negotiating the compensation for giving the keynote speeches. > > Imagine a librarian in 1985 who receives a phone call from the future: > "Hello, this is a call from the future. We have the fully electronic, > free-for-all encyclopedia here, larger than anything you've ever seen." > Would the librarian yawn and ignore it, or be all excited and jumping? > > Where exactly did we go wrong? If the largest encyclopedia ever is > not exciting to librarians, what planet is this? Why do we have to > push Wikipedia down their throats, one wikipedian-in-residence at a > time? Why aren't they tearing it out of our hands? I don't think it's > the Internet and all electronic gadgets that need explanation. It's > the library world that needs to explain what exactly they are doing. > > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > ______________________________**_________________ > cultural-partners mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.ch/**listinfo/cultural-partners<http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/cultural-partners> >
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