What I found the most reassuring was the validation of information posted on Wikipedia. I seek information from this source on a regular basis and encourage others to search on Wikipedia also, so it was great to discover that the information posted on Wikipedia has stringent verification standards.
Wikis would be a great tool in the library to post coming events, a 'What's on page'. I believe a 'What's on Wiki page' for community groups within the library website would be fabulous also. Local community groups could contribute and promote coming events. As the local library website has a large number of daily hits I think it would be a great way to promote events reaching a large number of people within the community. It would be excellent to have community members contributing to information dissemination within their own community via their local library website.
Your last sentence sums up, to me, exactly what we as an information service should be aiming for:
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