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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Not from IA, which is the subject of this thread.
How about sending some employees into the schools to retrieve the books and then setup a distribution point where parents could pick them up. It's the logical thing to do.
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I hesitate to wade back in...
There are millions of schools in the world. Sending teams in to collect books would be difficult to organise, not to mention impratical (don't students lock them in lockers?); coordinating to meet with parents is also difficult. And all of this is not consistent with "social distancing" etc.
If this isn't a scenario where a centralised source, which can be accessed via any location (i.e. the internet) makes sense, what is?
Does that sound reasonable?
It seems to me that the beef is mostly about something else (the means by which they came into possession of
some of their resources), but the issues are getting conflated into one - via the theory that this is all part of IAs longstanding agenda to destroy copyright.
If this theory is accurate, what will happen after the pandemic? Will the library find some excuse to remain without waiting lists? (I don't think so). Or will the damage have already been done? How so?