On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Mark Petz <ravenwyn@gmail.com> wrote:

There is a gaping cavern of a hole in the p2p website.

I was looking at:

http://p2pfoundation.net/Field_Guide_to_the_Commons

and it says libraries when we can no longer afford books - ??!!!!

This seems to me a big misrepresentation - I can afford books, but I think a library is essential as it reduces environmental impact on the planet, I want the expert services of a librarian that can find stuff for me, communal halls where I can meet fellow literati or researchers are valuable. Valuable books that I can leave there and someone else manage the security or limited editions I cannot find and can be stored collectively and better etc. many COMMONS aspects that have nowt to do with money or some kind of seeking alternative from a presumed mainstream culture.

Also I think there should be an actual page on this as the LIBRARY is probably the most familiar commons to people, which is a construct of man that works well.

Now maybe there is another page that has this? I don't know. But to develop more on the library it would be good to ask "Vesa Lehtinen" <akuleh@sci.fi> a qualified librarian here who worked at the Pispala Community Library here in Pispala. Not sure if you met him? Anyhow this is a library that is open to all, and not run through taxation, but one set up by the community here.

markus