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One of the roles of the libraries is preservation of knowledge. The problem that comes to my mind is the fact that there is a great amount of knowledge availabl
by taubek 5y ago
One of the roles of the libraries is preservation of knowledge. The problem that comes to my mind is the fact that there is a great amount of knowledge available only on non-paper media and you would need some kind of device to access them.
Even the old newspaper editions are either digitized or saved on microfiche films.
There is also a question of what does it mean to rebuild society? Get it to which stage? Bronze age, medieval times, time od space travels? Imagen if catastrophe was a masive EMP that would kill all of the electronic devices at once and that you have one simple task: bring fresh water to people. You can either start with building aqueducts (like old Romans did) or you could try to build pumps that run on wind power. How long would it take to create one single engine that is powered by electricity?
- logicalmonster 5y ago> One of the roles of the libraries is preservation of knowledge. Don't many libraries use analytics to determine which types of books are popular and which books aren't borrowed often enough to justify what gets put on the shelves? Aren't their shelves filling up with lots of timely pop-culture rather than timeless knowledge?
- taubek 5y agoIn my country there is a national library. They have to store in thir vault/archive every publication that was published in that country. I think that the name of this is "Mandatory law". https://stuff.coffeecode.net/www.loc.gov/law/help/deposit-laws/index.php https://stuff.coffeecode.net/www.loc.gov/law/help/deposit-la...