Reblogged from Everybody's Libraries:
I've heard the lament in more than one library discussion over the years. "People aren't coming to our library like they should," librarians have told me. "We've got a rich collection, and we've expended lots of resources on an online presence, but lots of our patrons just go to Google and Wikipedia without checking to see what we have." The pattern of quick online information-finding using search engines and Wikipedia is well-known enough that it has its own acronym: GWR, for…
John Mark Ockerbloom has outlined an exciting concept and system for dynamically incorporating a user's local library resources into Wikipedia articles.