Saturday, November 20
DNB update
Following my earlier comments, I have now had an official response from the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography team informing me that :
"According to the list I have Oxfordshire County Council and Reading Libraries have made purchases of the ODNB.
All I can do is wait and see the outcome of their "testing the water". I'll keep you posted.
"According to the list I have Oxfordshire County Council and Reading Libraries have made purchases of the ODNB.
We appreciate that a number of individual readers would welcome either CD Rom or pay-as-you go service. We will be testing the water over the next few months and reviewing how to proceed and will take customers' feedback into account when doing so."
So if I want to trek all the way over to Reading or Oxford (both about half an hour's drive, and half an hour trying to park) - then I can consult it from their libraries - possibly over the internet. Wasn't this the sort of thing that the internet was meant to avoid ?All I can do is wait and see the outcome of their "testing the water". I'll keep you posted.