On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
[On libraries]
These are not universally available or accessible.
Rural areas and
third world countries have virtually no access. Maintaining a
comprehensive collection is frightfully expensive both in terms of
acquisition and storage.
This book storage facility recently built for a copyright library in
the UK makes that point well:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11484494
Funding libraries is not always seen as a
government priority. Many libraries need to divest themselves of much
older material just to make space.
I think the copyright libraries in the UK are government funded, but I
see that the concept is one of "legal deposit":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Deposit_Libraries_Act_2003
I think I failed to send copies of a university bulletin I edited and
published to the British Library (though I did send it to one of the
other libraries listed there). The bulletin in question might even
have had an ISSN number. Not sure. Oh well.
Carcharoth