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A library without books? Universities purging dusty volumes

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By MICHAEL RUBINKAM

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When was the last time you held a book in your hands and read it? Me? Yesterday

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Until we have some government official telling us we can't access A or B website because it endangers national policy, our economy, whatever.

A few years ago I got into electro-farming. Quite interesting. I read along the way that early the last can that in Europe it was one of the categories that were banned and burned. We all heard of burning books but never what kind of categories.

As it turned out this category was banned because it posed a great threat to the nascent pharmaceutical and chemical economic sectors. What we consider fiction today was very successful fields 100-200 years ago. They were during many sicknesses through simple electricity.

I think we need private clouds to protect categories of information.

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Sorry, that was to be last century.

They were curing ...

This tablet has a mind of its own.

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Love books. The feel of them. The joy and knowledge they bring.

Back in the other countries, I couldn't leave a charity shop without buying at least one. Sometimes get lucky and find out of print stuff, as well.

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If people don't anymore go to the library to use the books, then they themselves are signing those books' death warrants

Substantially thinning a library's print collection also ignores the role of serendipity in research — looking for one book in the stacks and stumbling upon another, leading to some new insight or approach

This has been the same thing happening with more consumer-buying going online - there's no more foot-traffic that could lead to stumbling something new

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If people aren't borrowing the books, can we really justify using valuable space to store them? Yes, keep a copy in storage, but books that are never take up space in a library that could be used another way.

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