[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: Donation of 2 years' of Nature and Science journals

[Tony Longshanks LeTigre]

ZiP MegaZine would love to have them if Noisebridge declines!

zipzine at riseup.net
or message me privately for the office phone


LONGSHANKS

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

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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.
>
> - --
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net
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