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China's giant Shanghai library -- new, and now open?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Kessler)
Mon Dec 16 21:16:16 1996
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:56:20 -0600 (CST)
From: Jack Kessler <kessler@well.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
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China just formally announced the opening next week of one of the world's
largest libraries: 10 million volumes "with room for 3 million more", in
Shanghai.
This is from an AP (Beijing) bulletin dated 12/13, based on a Xinhua News
Agency release. The bulletin speaks of "1,400-year-old books and the
Internet alike", "7 1/2 acres, and... exhibition halls, computers and more
than 20 reading rooms", and two buildings of 11 and 24 floors apiece.
You can see a photo of the presumably - former and wonderfully - named
"Shanghai Library (formerly the Shanghai Race Course Club)" online at
http://www.sh.com/arch/archch6.htm .
Look out, London and Paris, it's a Brave New World. Robinson Jeffers called
the Pacific "The Eye of the Earth"...
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us
