Phil Nash wrote: > Oldak Quill wrote: > >>> 2009/3/4 Durova: >>> >>>> Two words: interlibrary loan. >>>> >>> That gives me an idea. Some users live in rural areas far away from >>> large book repositories, with little capacity to check off-line >>> resources, while other users live in metropolitan centres with dozens >>> of vast libraries a bus ride away. >>> > To my eternal regret, I watched my local news programme the other night, to > find that a book warehouse in Bristol had closed down and rather than skip > or burn its contents, the public had been invited to come along and help > themselves. If I'd been aware of it, I would have been there, because it > appears that about 250,000 books were available. By the time the TV crew > got there, there was very little left. Shame. There should be a way of > finding out about these things, and perhaps some sort of "give us your old > books" drive would be worth trying.
The simple fact that 250,000 books should go so quickly shows that an interest in the product is still there. Ec _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
