[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: Donation of 2 years' of Nature and Science journals
Rubin Abdi
rubin at starset.net
Tue Jun 26 07:46:01 UTC 2012
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Tom L wrote, On 2012-06-25 17:38:
> On the one hand, knowledge is locked up in horrible unpleasant
> ways (sadface), and it would be great to have the info generally at
> NB rather than just at deep-pocketed academic institutions.
>
> On the other hand, paper journals are heavy and they take up a lot
> space. Paper journals have a terrible UI for searching and
> browsing.
>
> In net: I have no opposition per se. If there's someone who thinks
> this is important, and wants to adopt this and take responsibility
> for this repository of knowledge, go ahead. However, if there's
> nobody who thinks this is important enough to step up and deal with
> it, then I suggest that we decline this generous offer, and let it
> go to a worthier cause.
I think what you're saying here is basically, if the donated material
also came with a dedicated crack team of librarians ready to turn
Noisebridge's library into a functional searchable index of books, and
continues to maintain that, then this would be a great donation.
To me a pile of books without any sort of organization or
search-ability is about one step higher than a pile of burning books.
I would recommend against more donations of printed publications until
the library makes some sense again.
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Rubin
rubin at starset.net
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