#28: Some information is better than none

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If you can’t afford a professional translation service, go online to a crowdsourcing site like reddit or metafilter and get a single paragraph of important information about your library translated into a language other than English. Libraries can sometimes be hesitant to put out materials that don’t meet a certain professional standard—worrying that it won’t follow the style guide, will have errors, or won’t be as complete as the English version. However, if the realistic alternative to incomplete information or information with minor grammatical errors is no information at all, do your non-English-speaking patrons the service of giving them the former.