Lambo@openbiblio.socialRE: https://zeroes.ca/@datum/117576867605369519
A good reminder re libraries and archives: storing copies of 2021-era textbooks, keeping track of them (metadata record), keeping them accessible (if possible even in printed physical form), coordinate the task between multiple institutions (safeguarding a 2nd copy, if necessary dark-archived) etc.
This is not to say you shouldn't be nice to your personal physical book collection. Though the public utility and preparedness of libraries and archives are there for us, and worth fighting for.
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@Lambo And old books are a multi-leveled treasure of history. I once found a box of 19th c. books in a street give-away. Physics and chemistry, nobody wanted them.
With the names and notes inside, I could reconstruct the ancient library of a regional castle, belonging to a famous physicist who nearly had won the nobel prize. The library was funded by his grandfather, Georg Forster visited him there, later Alexander von Humboldt. This 1/2
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#bookstodon #archives #libraries #histodon
@Lambo 2/2 fascinating liberty of thinking, this thirst of research and curiosity! And then I found the French schoolbooks of the later old women who had sold everything ...
Those schoolbooks told a very dark history of racism, colonialism.
And so I had a box of global history, the beginnings of space research and the later narrowed paths into political disaster.
Old books talk even if you can't understand their content. Nowadays, people even don't remember the names.
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