On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Oldak Quill <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/4 Durova <[email protected]>: >> Two words: interlibrary loan. >> >> -Durova > > That gives me an idea. Some users live in rural areas far away from > large book repositories, with little capacity to check off-line > resources, while other users live in metropolitan centres with dozens > of vast libraries a bus ride away. > > Is there a page on Wikipedia where one user (a rural user, let's > presume), can ask for an offline reference to be checked ("can you > check this page of this book for this statement/fact")? If not, might > it be a useful service to offer? > > I, for example, live in London and have easy access to a number of > large university libraries and the British Library (if the resource is > especially obscure). It would also be possible to scan in the relevant > page of a PD/uncopyrighted book, as proof of the reference, for > example.
Oldak et al, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange, which appears to still be going on. What you talk about could possibly be added into this service? -- Phoebe _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
