Oldak Quill wrote:
2009/3/4 Durova nadezhda.durova@gmail.com:
Two words: interlibrary loan.
-Durova
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.