Many thanks to Cronaca for spreading the word!
http://www.cronaca.com/archives/004613.html
Cultural suicide at Karlsruhe
This story has remained essentially invisible outside Germany, and I'm not sure why. It's been headline news there: a proposed selloff of 3500 of the 4200 medieval manuscripts -- many of them of the highest importance -- in the Badische Landesbibliothek of Karlsruhe. Worse, the money wouldn't even go to the library, or even to any public entity [...]
BTW: The Online petition is closed.
Here is a list of the relevant entries of ARCHIVALIA's "English Corner" on the Karlsruhe case.
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2743873/
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2739268/
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2731521/
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2720115/
http://www.cronaca.com/archives/004613.html
Cultural suicide at Karlsruhe
This story has remained essentially invisible outside Germany, and I'm not sure why. It's been headline news there: a proposed selloff of 3500 of the 4200 medieval manuscripts -- many of them of the highest importance -- in the Badische Landesbibliothek of Karlsruhe. Worse, the money wouldn't even go to the library, or even to any public entity [...]
BTW: The Online petition is closed.
Here is a list of the relevant entries of ARCHIVALIA's "English Corner" on the Karlsruhe case.
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2743873/
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2739268/
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2731521/
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2720115/
KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2006, 01:36 - Rubrik: English Corner
