I'm gonna ask the question....

[Paul Mackin]

On 4/14/2011 4:22 PM, David Morris wrote:
> These general encyclopedias really are dust-collectors, bound sets on
> faux leather w/ gold printing that serve to make home shelving appear
> pretty/serious.  Their info becomes stale before taken out of their
> boxes.
>
> The Catholic Encyclopedia might have better staying power as a
> catalogue of religious, but really, they would have to get stale also,
> in light of ever-expanding perspectives on the past.

Yeah, we're now used to 24/7 info.

Is the online CE updated continually--say like Wikipedia?

Speaking of things Catholic, did anyone notice that the reader on 
Audible's Recognitions' audio mispronounces St. Augustine's name.

It should be uh GUS tin, not AW guss teen

Not that it matters but . .

P



> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net>  wrote:
>> On 4/14/2011 2:50 PM, David Morris wrote:
>>> The online version frees up the hard copy:
>>>
>>> http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/tag/future/
>> I had that version of the Britannica but finally threw it out.  A friend's mom had given it to her and it ended up gathering dust in my library.