lis-linkers might remember a while ago I sent a message about the RHS bibliography, IHR and privatisation.
lis-linkers might have read that Birkbeck has closed its MA in Garden History. Less well known will be the bibliography of the Garden History Society, available as pdf from its web site, but the Hon Librarian no longer has the resources to keep it going. I presume Desmon's 1984 bibliography will be known, though at Senate House it is still in the reserve stock!
It seems to me there is a matter here of public good, good libraries, and my new thread, Yes, Prime Minister, there are alternatives, ypmtaa.
if there is no social knowledge on a matter such as the history of designed landscapes (and the GHS is much wider than gardens, yards, whatever those might be) and the role of public space, public goods and rights, private goods and rights, then huge costs, political, economic and social occur. This is why education is a public good as well as a private one (which also demonstrates both and and either or)
Ever since LfSC, I've tried to get co-operative librarianship on the go, and now we have another new case, with a lot more new technology.
I've just found Geograph, about which I knew nothing, and I have just found Periodicals Archive Online & Index, which I don't think I knew about since it was paper. (and therefore of course not on line. My online experience started with ERIC in 1975, so there is another history there).
I think ARLIS should be my starting point, but of course the problem with the designed landscape is that it is everywhere.
Anyone interested?
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University,
Kingston Upon Thames,
London.
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