21 Nov
2001
21 Nov
'01
9:03 a.m.
John Young wrote:
The LA Times report makes fair points but much of the information being removed from selected repositories is available elsewhere, as previously discussed here.
An example is the removal of info on dams and reservoirs. That is widely available elsewhere, as shown on Google.
No doubt, but a high degree of public access is lost when paper and microfiche are burned, and of course anything in electronic form can be made to disappear from one minute to the next, with no evidence that it ever existed. I would still love to be standing next to the dumpster at a certain large university library with my banker box, along with a lot of friends with theirs... Marc de Piolenc Philippines