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<div>Von: Thomas Corsten <thomas.corsten@classics.ox.ac.uk> </div>
<div>Datum: 16.03.18 11:35 (GMT+01:00) </div>
<div>An: Niedermaier Werner <werner.niedermaier@univie.ac.at> </div>
<div>Betreff: FW: Library crisis </div>
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Könnten Sie diese Schreckensnachricht mit Petition, bitte, über sämtliche Verteiler versenden? Vielen Dank!<br>
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Herzliche Grüße,<br>
Thomas Corsten<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> 15 March 2018 18:44<br>
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<div>Same thing at the University of Ghana. The Balme library's holdings of periodicals, thanks to decades of dedicated avuncular support from University of London, the progenitor of UG before Independence, was second to none in the West African region, also
extending beyond since little or no investment in scholarship exists in Central Africa or East for that matter, apart from Tanzania and Uganda. So there were stacks and stacks of philosophy journals dating back in some cases to the early 1900s. Classics,
a few to the late 19th century. And of a sudden, all were gone, and in their place were miles of shiny ceramic floor tiles and plywood, fake wood carousels but mostly a lot of floor space, as if it were a health spa or dance rehearsal room. For what? Renovation,
means everything should look new and shiny for the pictures uploaded on the internet. I fought for a couple semesters to find out how my students could get access to their laboratory material, their data, the life blood of their discipline, but was met with
cold indifference and irritation by library staff. Offended at one point, i was assured that nothing had been thrown away (how colo of me, how prejudiced to assume something so anti intellectual could be done with the periodicals) so where were they? Locked
up without access, indefinitely. Feast for the bookworms and the paper mold.</div>
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<div>I guess these are signs of the end of the book era. Future children will laugh at those quaint things people used to hold in their hands and turn 'pages' of marks called words . . . . It's a nasty Brave New World up ahead.</div>
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<div>H. Lauer, PhD, FGA</div>
<div>Chief Editor UTAFITI Journal</div>
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<div>(Professor, Dept Philosophy & Religious Studies)</div>
<div>University of Dar es Salaam</div>
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<div>On Thursday, March 15, 2018, 9:31:42 PM GMT+3, Justina Gregory <jgregory@SMITH.EDU> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">The University of Texas is by no means alone in its bibliophobic<br clear="none">
policy. At Smith College, which boasted one of the largest and<br clear="none">
best-curated collections of any college in the U.S., the books have<br clear="none">
been removed (some to be shipped offsite, others to vanish) and the<br clear="none">
library building torn down, to be replaced by a student activities<br clear="none">
center. The resistance of a small group of faculty was met with<br clear="none">
evasions, denials, impatience, and suppression. One expects fierce<br clear="none">
anti-intellectualism from the Taliban or Isis; it's a shock to<br clear="none">
encounter it in university administrators.
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