Yesterday students at the University of Sydney organised a mass borrowing of books to protest against proposals by the University's Fisher Library to remove 500,000 books from the shelves and retrench 30 staff. Just two months ago concern was expressed at the removal of a large number of books from the library at University of New South Wales. I wrote about this in a previous … [Read more...] about Sydney University Library: Borrowers Protest
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History Without the Book???
People worry about the ephemeral nature of information on the internet. Web pages are easy to create and just as easy to remove or alter. Many prefer to refer to a hard copy of a book because they believe that it will be accessible for longer than information found on the internet. But the book is not an inviolable object. It can be destroyed by disaster, carelessness and … [Read more...] about History Without the Book???