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Greetings,

My proposal won't get through this time but I am trying again so please edorse this.


The Global Library
A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.


Category: The Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Great Agnostica

Description: Fellow Nations,

I purpose a Global Library for all knowledge and information. It would be accessible to anybody and will have all knowledge available. That means News, books, old newspapers, medical reports, and biographies on significant people will be available. This Library will be the best of the best. It will be interactive with a new type of Technology known as Holographic Imaging. This will help the visitor what they are looking for. So in the end I feel this Library will help preserve our history and help our children learn about our generation.

Yours, Truly
President Caulfield
Great Agnostica

A good idea, but methinks it could use a rewrite and a polish.

Now where did I hide Mikivity...

The DSH got rid of libraries decades ago - all our archived information is stored electronically, so Hirota has it's own smaller version of a The Global Library already available on the 'net.

Last time I checked (about 10:00pm EDT) your proposal had almost 70 votes, half as many as are needed: this definitely warrants a resubmission. I suggest you take Vastiva's advice and give this'n a spit-shine before, though. Reevaluate what exactly this is doing; answer the who, what, when, where, why, and how; and re-consider how strong of an involvement is required, specifically, of UN member nations. You might even consider transposing it into the "action word/run-on/conventional" style suggested in Sophista's sticky (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=342360).

If you need a list of nations that supported this proposal (sometimes the expiration of proposal sneak up on people) for telegramming, I think I can help with that.

I'm generally in favour of this, except for one thing. I don't think the wording is quite right, particularly in the ase of medical reports. The way it is phrased now seems to imply that people's individual records will be available for perusal by anyone at anytime - a gross intrusion into privacy. I understand that you are probably thinking of reports on new drugs, diseases etc, but I would suggest rewriting this to clear up any confusion.

Other than that, I'm in favour.

Oh, before someone else asks, will this library be kept in all languages, or just English? The Council of Enn would like to see international reports translated into High Ennial.

The Rougue Nation of The Irish Brotherhood also believes this deserves a re-submit! We will be in favour.

p.s. Enn had a good point. Will it be in Irish aswell?

Not to ask a dumb question, and not to indicate I don't like the idea, but what does a library have to do with democractic freedoms?

The Rougue Nation of The Irish Brotherhood also believes this deserves a re-submit! We will be in favour.

p.s. Enn had a good point. Will it be in Irish aswell?

Look, we found one of those Rouge states!!!!!

Look, we found one of those Rouge states!!!!!

Damn. The mascara states can't be far behind. Whatever shall we do???? :(

Oh, before someone else asks, will this library be kept in all languages, or just English? The Council of Enn would like to see international reports translated into High Ennial.

If the goal is to archive things, perhaps the archivists will need to read in different languages but the archive will be whatever is given to it. For example, any Barada (one of the City States) reports are submitted, it really shouldn't be the burden of the UN to try and interpet original Barada into English or German -- we'll take care of that.

For example, let's pretend a place called California exists. And that a bunch of old Spanish letters are found in a mine. Do the letters need to be translated into Chinese or ValleyGirl?

I understand that as written that the goal of the library appears to be to put our history in the hands of whomever would want it, but I think that there are two goals:

1. Saving our history,
2. Sharing our history.

You can't do the second item if you don't get a hold of the first. Let's build it, and when it gets close to being constructed, then we can worry about what sort of access / resources should be associated with the library.

[NOTE: I'm really wanting to avoid the second half, because well you know how folks are. They'll immediately be opposed to the idea not because they disagree with the principal, but they'll be afraid an all-knowing alien probe from another galaxy will seek out our nations and try to check out phonebooks with addresses and the voting records of our leaders ... why an all-knowing alien probe doesn't already have this information or would even care, I just don't know -- but this plot trick worked for Gene Roddenberry a half dozen times, and thus it is sure to end up dominating a NS UN forum debate.] ::sigh::

What about a virtual library that might be headquartered at a physial building?

It's a nice idea, but what about people who would have no way in heck of getting to the location?

By hosting things virtually, either via internet or other technological means, you'd be able to benefit many more people that an actual building housing books would ever do in this day and age.