September 30, 2005
Libraries Lost: Storage Bins and Robotic Arms
On October 16, 2002, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina -- the New Library of Alexandria, Egypt -- officially opened, although some prefer to think of it as a reopening, 2,000 years after the destruction of the legendary original Alexandrian Library, which was intended to be a universal archive and pre-eminent center of learning.
Shortly thereafter Santa Clara University, where I teach, announced plans that apparently reveal a decision to abandon those ideals: It wishes to transform
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