[Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 15:02:54 UTC 2012


On 7 January 2012 13:01, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all;
>
> Bosnia's top cultural institutions[1] (National Museum, Historical Museum,
> National Gallery) and the National Library which was burnt in 1992, are
> closing their doors for funding disputes.
>
> This is a disaster for the spreading of human knowledge, and I don't see
> any blog post in the Wikimedia blog. Are you so worried and biased with the
> US bills?
>
> Imagine the WMF reaction if Library of Congress closes.
>

Well lets face it the LOC and the Bosnian  National Library are not
really in the same league. In any case is there any particular reason
to think that the funding disputes wont eventually be sorted out?

-- 
geni




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