Comments on: Can “Traditional” Encyclopedias Compete in a Wikipedia World? http://wanderings.edublogs.org/2009/05/21/can-traditional-encyclopedias-compete-in-a-wikipedia-world/ Random thoughts about libraries, information literacy and information technology. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:25:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Jacquie Henry http://wanderings.edublogs.org/2009/05/21/can-traditional-encyclopedias-compete-in-a-wikipedia-world/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Jacquie Henry Wed, 27 May 2009 01:17:52 +0000 http://wanderings.edublogs.org/?p=238#comment-96 I have sent Grolier and World Book a link to this blog post. It will be interesting to see if they reply. I have sent Grolier and World Book a link to this blog post. It will be interesting to see if they reply.

]]> By: Nancy Dickinson http://wanderings.edublogs.org/2009/05/21/can-traditional-encyclopedias-compete-in-a-wikipedia-world/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Nancy Dickinson Tue, 26 May 2009 23:16:35 +0000 http://wanderings.edublogs.org/?p=238#comment-95 Jacquie, Even though I have already sent you this reply privately after reading your post on lm_net, I wanted to post my comment here on your blog. Again, thanks for bringing this up. Nancy I know that I was actually embarrassed this past school year. I had convinced my principal to purchase World Book Online, had done some lessons on the inaccuracies of Wikipedia, and convinced my kids to use World Book first. Then a teacher sent some children to the library to find some information on some obscure inventors. You can guess the rest of the story. Nothing on WB; we wound up using Wikipedia. And this is elementary school. You are completely correct. I'm not sure if I can recommend we renew our subscription next year. I guess I should let WB know about this! Jacquie, Even though I have already sent you this reply privately after reading your post on lm_net, I wanted to post my comment here on your blog. Again, thanks for bringing this up.
Nancy

I know that I was actually embarrassed this past school year. I had convinced my principal to purchase World Book Online, had done some lessons on the inaccuracies of Wikipedia, and convinced my kids to use World Book first. Then a teacher sent some children to the library to find some information on some obscure inventors. You can guess the rest of the story. Nothing on WB; we wound up using Wikipedia. And this is
elementary school.

You are completely correct. I’m not sure if I can recommend we renew our subscription next year. I guess I should let WB know about this!

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