When wiki first came out, everyone I knew thought it was so much better. Granted it hadn't been political then. But, libraries don't even teach how to research the way I learned anymore.
When I was little we had book marks with our name, and we were supposed to put the name of the book we removed from the shelf on them so we could put the book back where it belongs. I went to school after I had kids, and a librarian flipped out seeing me put my own book back.
She was absolutely amazed that I was doing what I just described. She went and got the rest of the staff. They decided they didn't want others to see me putting books back, because no one else was trained to do it appropriately. I can also use a physical card catalog.
They don't teach it anymore. It's all digital, and paying for digital IP access is expensive.
I want Encyclopedia Britanica back.
https://www.britannica.com/
Yes, thank you. But, I meant the physical books everyone threw away without a thought. Those came be updated remotely.
You can still find some old cd-roms (or rips of such) of non-updating versions of Britannica dating back to early 2000s.
You may have to run a 16-bit WIndows emulation to run them though.
Man, who threw those away?
When wiki first came out, everyone I knew thought it was so much better. Granted it hadn't been political then. But, libraries don't even teach how to research the way I learned anymore.
When I was little we had book marks with our name, and we were supposed to put the name of the book we removed from the shelf on them so we could put the book back where it belongs. I went to school after I had kids, and a librarian flipped out seeing me put my own book back.
She was absolutely amazed that I was doing what I just described. She went and got the rest of the staff. They decided they didn't want others to see me putting books back, because no one else was trained to do it appropriately. I can also use a physical card catalog.
They don't teach it anymore. It's all digital, and paying for digital IP access is expensive.