These are the books that I find interesting for our bibliography: -----------------------------------------------------------------
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore.
I would also recommend the books by Richard Dawkins which can be found in Francis' bibliography, more specifically the Selfish Gene
I already own these books and will make them available in the ECCO library.
The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. I have always found it interesting how many people claim to be able to go without a decent style-guide. I have both used this MLA handbook and the St Martin's Guide to Writing and have found to benefit from the use of these books. As some our researchers are not mothertonguespeakers of English and as most of our mails are written in English it will be a useful asset to have some of these books (as well as a good thesaurus) in the ECCO collection.
This is an excellent suggestion.
I have some other books on memetics in my personal library here as well but I foresee that they will move to the CLEA library or to my office there pretty soon.
The idea I have in mind is too pool our personal belongings into a shared "library" in the following way. If somebody owns an interesting book, but does not need it at the moment and is willing to let other ECCO members read it, that person can store that book in a place accessible for ECCO members (e.g. the book cupboards in the basement of the CLEA house), but including a label or "ex-libris" that clearly identifies the owner, so that no discussion can arise about who owns what.
If someone sees that book in the library and wants to borrow it for reading, that person inserts a piece of cardboard with his/her name, date of borrowing, and title of the book in the space where the book used to be. If someone else (including the owner) would like to get the borrowed book, they then immediately know who to ask for it. The same system would apply for books that belong to ECCO as a group (or even to CLEA, which has also quite a collection). In this way, the scattered collections of books that we have built upt individually or collectively can be easily converted into a pretty extensive and easy-to-use library. It will help *me* at least to create some more space and order in my own book cupboards at home and in the office, while supporting the research of others...
In a later stage, we can enter all books titles, authors, and perhaps keywords in a database that can be consulted and edited over the web, so that you can check from a distance which books are available in the library and who has borrowed what.
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