See also the Waterstone's link
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/
and here
http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/
> Hi all.
>
> Just thought I should add to the issue of the Amazon advert on the the
> British Library site and come in thier defence.
>
> Since 1995, in the course of updating national library web sites around
> the world at http://members.fortunecity.com/infoconnect/Page19.htm
>
> I have indeed come across "some form of commercialisation" on national
> library web sites even though national libraries are known to be
> "traditionally" funded by public money.
>
> But in the modern era of the Internet, some national libraries actually
> have to raise extra funds via adverts on their web sites, e.g. to
> manage the huge costs of hosting a web site and paying staff to maintain
> it, especially if they have thier own server outright, and not subscribe
> to an ISP. Governments just do not provide enough money from the
> budget.
>
> Take a random look at some national libraries websites, on my web site,
> and you will see it is not just national libraries from advanced
> countries like the UK, having some form of commercial advert on their
> web site, but also 3rd world countries from Latin America and Asia too!!
>
> I rest my case!
>
> Godfrey.
>
>
> Aran Lewis wrote:
> > > > Interesting that on the main page The British Library Public
> > > > Catalogue has an amazon.co.uk advert and under it the words
> > > > "Buy books NOW from our sponsors". A little jarring. Wasn't
> > > > anticipating any level of commercialism here.
>
> Peter Scott
>
> > > > Interesting that on the main page The British Library Public
> > > > Catalogue has an amazon.co.uk advert and under it the words
> > > > "Buy books NOW from our sponsors". A little jarring. Wasn't
> > > > anticipating any level of commercialism here.
> > >
> > > It's becoming very common for libraries to raise funds this way.
> > > See:
> > >
> > > http://www.lights.com/how-to/libraries.html
> >
>
>
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