[WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

[Phil Nash]

Ray Saintonge wrote:
>> 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

That would be great, if we had any confidence or hope that such incidents 
would result in improved sourcing or even new articles; but we can't be that 
sure. I could easily have found even fifty books there to replace those I've 
lost over the years that even libraries don't have any more, and that could 
have fuelled my editing for the rest of my life. So, a couple of months, 
then.