On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote:
[On libraries] > These are not universally available or accessible. Rural areas and > third world countries have virtually no access. Maintaining a > comprehensive collection is frightfully expensive both in terms of > acquisition and storage. This book storage facility recently built for a copyright library in the UK makes that point well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11484494 > Funding libraries is not always seen as a > government priority. Many libraries need to divest themselves of much > older material just to make space. I think the copyright libraries in the UK are government funded, but I see that the concept is one of "legal deposit": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Deposit_Libraries_Act_2003 I think I failed to send copies of a university bulletin I edited and published to the British Library (though I did send it to one of the other libraries listed there). The bulletin in question might even have had an ISSN number. Not sure. Oh well. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
