The wonderful world of the wiki...
I spend a lot of time using wikipedia. I understand that it's not infallable and is easy to change and such, but it's a GREAT source for finding up to date information about a variety of things. If you need a quick reference as a starting point for looking up further information, wiki's are great tools. For instance if you want to know more about an actor who plays a certain role in a movie but don't know his name, you can search for the movie and most likely find information on that as well as the actor you are looking for. Then you can go and do a more formal search on other databases.
I think that this is an excellent tool for a librarian. I used it just last week to look up information on where a certain horse race was run. The patron was looking for information on how the site of the horserace looked because he was going to use it in an upcoming book that he was writing. He wasn't sure of the name, so I used wikipedia and was able to find out the information for him, so that we could go online and search for the location.
This was my first foray into editing a wiki though.. I do have to say it kind of made me feel important. Trivial but amusing. =D
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