I caught part of a lecture by Carl Bernstein (Woodward? - no matter) on
C-Span this past weekend and when asked if he used the Internet,
Bernstein/Woodward said (among other things) that when his assistant
gets an Internet document from the library, the document is always
stamped with a disclaimer to the effect that "the validity, reliability, blah,
blah, blah, of this document cannot be verified, vouched for, blah blah
blah".
This seems like a very good idea, even here in academia, and I
wondered if other law librarians do this and what kind of wording they
use.
I've emailed a newspaper librarian friend to get her input too.
I'll be happy to post a summary of any responses I receive.
Laura
Laura J. Orr
Reference Librarian
Lillian Goldman Library
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8215
Email: laura.orr@yale.edu
Phone: 203-432-7535
Fax: 203-432-9692
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