Yes, the last two companies I worked for have disappeared, as have a lot of non commercial institutions that I used to cover. I am thinking of museums, university departments, various historians and … (View Post)

Yes, I can go to more than one library, or visit more than one website, and in an ideal world I probably would. But books come from a variety of producers, publishers, authors and languages, and are … (View Post)

Is that right? If I make requests to a Chinese website for information about Tiananmin Square, I get fobbed off. I can't control what I cannot access. To take another example, I have just asked CoPil… (View Post)

I'm not sure if it's still there, but there used to be a sign in the Bodleian Library saying "Ask Google and get a million answers; ask a Librarian and get one, correct, answer". I fear tha… (View Post)

(Oh, please, not the pineapple thing again....) (View Post)