[WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

[Phil Nash]

Oldak Quill wrote:
>> 2009/3/4 Durova <nadezhda.durova at 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.