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nekokami said:
> Maybe there could be some kind of
> distributed archive system where
> institutions agree among themselves about
> which paper "backups" will be stored where?
seems like a pretty obvious answer, doesn't it?
yet, as far as i can tell, correct me if i'm wrong,
please!, because i would _love_ to be wrong, but
apparently, librarians are completely incapable of
thinking collectively. it's every library for itself...
so, as far as i know, just to give you one example,
books from the michigan library that google scans
will be hosted by michigan. and the stanford scans
will be hosted by stanford. and the harvard scans
will be hosted by harvard, and on and on and on...
is that massively stupid, or what?
stop the "my library is bigger than your library"
madness, you idiotic institutions of higher learning.
pool your scans into a cyberlibrary that all of you
-- and the rest of the world -- has access to...
or be regarded as fools...
-bowerbird
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