The Wikis encyclopedia has always been appealing to me.
One of my hopes for the internet was to see such an encylopedia.
Although occasional errors are found, the mistakes are not a real problem.
The website is adequately refereed to keep its data reliable.
Regardless of the source of informaiton, it still remains the responsibility of the researcher to verify the information through other supporting primary and secondary resources. After all, any book published has at least a handful of errors in them.
Yet, we do not stop using the "hardcopy" reference materials. Another great online encyclopedia is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at...
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maritain/
This resource is absolutely fabulous and contains informtion on most any person or topic related to philosophy. In addition, the articles are by individuals of note in this field of study. For example, the article about Jacque Maritain, an famous thomist of the 20th Century, was composed by Ralph McInerny. He is the Dean of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and the author of the Father Dowling Mysteries.
The SJCPL Subject Guides were interesting, but most likely not appealing to the general public. The RSS Feed was there, and that would be helpful to librarians and researchers.
I also thought the Book Lovers Wiki at the Princeton Public Library was excellent for the general public. Still, Librarians need to learn how to be a little more jazzy in the presentation of the materials and web-based information in order to appeal to the younger general public.
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