Re: [gutvol-d] Dict of National Biography

Have you read Connie Willis's _Bellwether_? On 4/26/05, N Wolcott <nwolcott@dsdial.net> wrote:

Also the "books were old and out of date" were "not in use" . The reference books in use were "All the plots of Shakespeare's Plays", "Condensed 100 novels with plot lines" etc. I suggested they were encouraging theft as a mode of preservation. They were not amused. Disposal was up to the local librarian, in this case ssomeone whom I believe probably thought there was no need for English History anyway.