A teacher friend of mine texts that her head teacher is claiming the School Library is no longer necessary because everything's available free gratis and for nothing on line; yes, that old chestnut.
I've referred her to the Cilip School Library website, and I can go through all the standard arguments with her, but does anyone, off the top of their heads, know of a source of figures to show that a lot of things published in book form are original and not just scattered around the Web? We're all sure it’s true, of course, but it’s rather difficult to quantify.
Thanks.
Ian Budden
Acting Head of Acquisitions/Cataloguing Coordinator
BLDS (British Library for Development Studies)
Institute of Development Studies
at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE
Tel: +44 (0)1273 915651
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Website: www.blds.ids.ac.uk
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