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Fabienne Gallaire

@brewsterkahle From a university, this is dereliction of duty!
Glad to see the IA is picking up the slack, but still...

9 October at 19:50 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.sciences.re
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Brewster Kahle

@Lignedescience

Libraries have to make tough decisions to be able to keep buying new things,

so they are not doing anything wrong--

and I would day they are doing something right by making it public that these are available and then working with the @internetarchive

10 October at 1:51 | Open on mastodon.archive.org
Fabienne Gallaire

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive dissertations are not published books! The university where an old thesis was defended is often holding the only accessible copy, a fundamental resource for historians of science.

10 October at 2:01 | Open on social.sciences.re
Nemo_bis 🌈
Fabienne Gallaire

@nemobis ok, my bad. Still a finer grained approach would have been warranted imo.

10 October at 15:33 | Open on social.sciences.re
Nemo_bis 🌈

@Lignedescience A "finer grained approach" would typically have required inventorying or cataloguing, which would have cost millions, defeating the purpose (cost saving measures). The Internet Archive sidesteps the issue with digitisation and minimal (initial) metadata. Almost nobody else is doing the same for collections on an international/global scale, that's the issue.

10 October at 15:47 | Open on mamot.fr
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