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

[Hao]

I hold the same opinion as Kelly. These are really exciting and fun stuff
to read. And I'm sure we can always make rooms for magazines like that.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Kelly <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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