A gigantic robotic vault, the
National Newspaper Building in Boston Spa,
near Leeds, is the British Library’s high-tech approach to safeguarding
what it rather endearingly terms “the national memory” – 750m pages of
news, covering more than three centuries of goings-on, as reported in
papers across the nation. From political turmoil to humanitarian crisis,
murder cases to local marriage notices, it’s all here. And it’s
growing. “We’re adding something like 1,200 titles every week,” says
Alasdair Bruce, manager of the British Library Newspaper Programme.
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"The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition.
They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations."
Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978.
