Forwarding for Yahoo user Laura <[email protected]> From: Anna <[email protected]>: > Unfortunately those students are not allowed to refer to > online sources (stupid I know), therefore the Lister List - even > though it is the best source of Origami history I'm aware of - is out > of the question. Maybe it would be possible that the BOS publishes all > the essays as a booklet some day. This would be something they would > be allowed to use, even though it would be exactly the same content, > but hey, someone printed it out and sells it, this information must be > valuable. Ironic but true.
Your school may be right in banning or limiting that practice because the information that is found online is often full of "non-checked" data. David Lister was very concerned with accuracy. I remember how suspicious he was about data found in Wikipedia. I believe he considered his own essays to be a work in the making, and he had a reason for that. The information about the history of origami is scarce and full of holes and uncertainties. I may be wrong, but I think that was the main reason why he never published a "hard copy" book. There are books out there that basically have copied chunks of information from older books and websites, and you know the more a story is repeated the more seems true. This doesn't mean a book on the history of origami will never become a reality, but a good one should be one with a lot of footnotes, for a honest start. Laura Rozenberg
