As librarians, we need to be constantly thinking of what could be done differently, not remembering how it’s always been done.
The trust we place in the Britannica enables us to be passive knowers: You merely have to look a topic up to find out about it. But Wikipedia provides the metadata surrounding an article—edits, discussions, warnings, links to other edits by the contributors—because it expects the reader to be actively involved, alert to the signs… (Weinberger, 2007, p. 142)