Librarianism
If I had a lot of time and money, I'd descend into librarianism. I would just get myself a really large library, hire a professional librarian, and start to do three things: 1) catalogue existing volumes (at last count, I think about 8000); 2) add volumes to fill up gaps (probably another 12000 at least); 3) update volumes so that out-of-date material would be replaced by up-to-date stuff.
I guess it is one of my 'geek dreams', the kind of thing which goes along with teaching qualifications in computer science and other such wonkery. What a life!
I guess it is one of my 'geek dreams', the kind of thing which goes along with teaching qualifications in computer science and other such wonkery. What a life!
etched with acid at 7:33:00 am
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But why not just a wiki? ;-)
I love my new school's libraries. They are HUGE. And there are like 15 of them. But it occurs to me that more and more the books they contain become less and less central -- rather they still attract people in droves because of the atmosphere and community of learning, through all specialisations.
The thing about books is that they deliberately organise not only information but arguments; they have a developed structure designed to propagate a specific view.
Wikis tend to fall into a consensus; this is not necessarily bad, but you wouldn't get The Count of Monte Cristo (as one of myriads of exaamples) as a consensus novel.
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