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divinekangaroo · 2 months ago

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There is one thing which is consistently wonderful to me, which is this whole study thing when nearly everything is online.

I still have memories of the gaps and difficulties when I was studying back in the early 2000s - our library flooded at one point and every book and journal on the lower two shelves were destroyed. The information techs did their best but that library held some one of a kind texts - and because it was fine arts and architecture, some of them were these almost A1 sized folios. Now it's like, 'citation, follow link; dead end?; search; find; use.' 'new citation of interest!; follow link; dead end? search; find; read!' all from my shitty 450mm wide Ikea desk in my upstairs bedroom.

I mean, I imagine this will be quite the inverse once I lose my academic institution's ability to access behind all paywalls, but at least it's there...

#the hardcopies are still important ik #my last giant project was an operational library refurb of over 15000sqm which necessitated the collection's dramatic reduction #another earlier project was relocating irreplaceable film of prion discovery which now needs to be relocated again ironically #the peripheral fragments of archivist objectives picked up from those projects was really interesting #the fun in working for a university. it's not a business it's actually a mixup of several hundred businesses all loosely competing #for resources while maintaining outward representation of a common brand

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