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

[Kelly]

Dude, seriously. I want them.

I'm moving in a couple months and I have free access to these anyway
through academia but I *still* want them.

All you dead tree whiners should chill out. Those are some super
exciting magazines.

-Kelly

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Tony Longshanks LeTigre
<anthonyletigre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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