Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Free Groping On Trains And Buses

If the books go to the library, the library can get books? The debate is open.

Elmar wrote:

On April 27 was translocated the classroom, where it meets the Group of Reading, held educational activities with classes of high school and made the conference in October -November and December on topics such as the relationship between the Word and Image in Judaism and Islam, ties novel-film and the history of the sixteenth century, in a room on the ground floor of the Library Passerini Landi - via Carducci 14, Piacenza, local that:

1. has no habitable

2. has no independent income

3. has no connection to the Internet

4. is not intended to connect the screen to the VHS-DVD, with the obvious consequence that the plasma screen on the wall, and cost thousands of euro, it is virtually an empty shell.

I explained the situation to the group that spontaneously drafted a letter to be sent to the local newspaper, Freedom ', to the accompaniment of many signatures from students and teachers in these 8 years have learned to appreciate what Educational Department ago; n must be on too many illusions: the situation, generated by an almost surreal series of events related to the long yard, will not change abruptly. But at least we will make our voice heard.

Actually what I think about where we need to focus attention is the fact that the Education Department, since there has always been perceived as a foreign body authentic vocation of a library. That is to choose books, buy, catalog them and organize them into a coherent whole, promoting research and retrieval of bibliographic information, lend, but always without considering the merits of the content. The books go to the library, where they are handled, labeled, made available and provided. But never, perhaps, when read directly from the professionals; or at least not this fall nell'ossatura of their duties is a plus, the work can be read when you have time to do so, the proof is that the experience of reading groups and recently (two years) in a centuries-old library like ours. And that's why over 8 years of 4 directors who succeeded not only there was one that did not ask: " But the Education Department, what does ?". Question that has never been addressed either to the catalogs or the Conservative Fund Old, because these words, cataloging, storage, data processing, are part of the DNA of the library, and not only that of Piacenza, but the library in general, Library with the uppercase "B". Perhaps because
, paradossalmetne, the library does not aim so much to read and talk about what the books say, but particular emphasis to make them available as objects, open, browse, perhaps crossing the content start, just maybe, the alien is, not covered by its physiology.
Too bad, though.