[WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

[Ray Saintonge]

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