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In the UK, each book published on the market must have a copy sent once to the British Library for preservation (and maybe other legal deposit libraries). That
by jiehong 2mo ago
In the UK, each book published on the market must have a copy sent once to the British Library for preservation (and maybe other legal deposit libraries).
That’s a good built-in way to ensure public preservation of knowledge IMO
- m4rtink 2mo agoSame here in Czech Republic - also true for most printed periodical. I've been on a tour of one of these repositories - it is super impressive & the staff takes it super seriously.
- tmnvix 2mo agoWe have this in NZ too. The trouble is those books are not lent out. You have to go to the book. Also, with the proliferation of small print runs, self-published autobiographies, etc, I think the National Library no longer attempts to collect a copy of all publications. If these AI companies were creating public repositories where researchers could access digital copies then I would not have such a problem with this, but that is not what they are doing. The ability of researchers to cite these books as sources is being snuffed out.