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<p class="V">V {{#counter: || set = 0 }} — Hey! Why call it a ''toolshed''? What's out there is way-too-much for a toolshed! Look at one university's list of [https://library.columbia.edu/services/subject-guides.html digital research guides], about 250 by my count! You need something really big, an Amazon warehouse, to hold just a part of it all. I help a professor with his library and saw a book in it, ''Too Much to Know'', and said to myself, "Yeah, that's the problem!" And you know what? I looked more closely at the subtitle—''Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age''.<ref>Ann M. Blair, ''Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010)</ref> And the historian who wrote it starts the "modern age" around 1500. A ''toolshed'' isn't right.</p> | <p class="V">V {{#counter: || set = 0 }} — Hey! Why call it a ''toolshed''? What's out there is way-too-much for a toolshed! Look at one university's list of [https://library.columbia.edu/services/subject-guides.html digital research guides], about 250 by my count! You need something really big, an Amazon warehouse, to hold just a part of it all. I help a professor with his library and saw a book in it, ''Too Much to Know'', and said to myself, "Yeah, that's the problem!" And you know what? I looked more closely at the subtitle—''Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age''.<ref>Ann M. Blair, ''Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010)</ref> And the historian who wrote it starts the "modern age" around 1500. A ''toolshed'' isn't right.</p> | ||