Comments on: Majtezwel keep them eh?

By: Veritas

Veritas — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:06:26 +0000

Seems like someone woke up from a decade-long hibernation and is now having a go at books.

Books will always be relevant even if outdated in their content, because they are a snapshot of the state of affairs then and therefore should be retained in libraries as they are the most useful books in terms of research.

But they should not be used as text books for current teaching and that is where upgrading is required.

By: Denpy

Denpy — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:08:03 +0000

And I think that is the most updated one from that lot in the picture. I remember it at St Joseph’s in the early 80s.

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:09:00 +0000

In reply to majmuma.

If the moon landing was a NASA sham i’d hate to be the fool who stole Malta’s Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock thinking it was worth 5 million dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Natural_History_%28Malta%29

By: helen

helen — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 07:07:15 +0000

Dear Daphne, here you touched a very soft spot for me – books.

I agree that science books with outdated texts should be moved to another section. However, I cannot understand why English literature books are being ‘weeded out’ and discarded.

I make use of the Public Library and the Regional Library to borrow books which my daughter uses as she is reading for a degree in English.

It breaks my heart to see such books removed from the shelves and sent for recycling.

Only recently I was looking for a book which is out of print and I managed to find it at the Tarxien Regional Library, ready to be recycled. Its value on Amazon was US$200.

By: Neo

Neo — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:36:48 +0000

In reply to bob-a-job. Why almost? They actually do predate the moon landings by some decades.

By: ken il malti

ken il malti — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:56:29 +0000

Who is to say when they actually landed on the moon or if they landed on the moon at all.

There are huge intelligently made structures on the moon that were photographed by one of the first successful Soviet satellites to orbit the moon in October 1959.

What they actually know and what they tell the public are two different things.

By: majmuma

majmuma — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:32:54 +0000

If the moon landing was a NASA sham after all, then these books are still relevant.

By: Se Maj

Se Maj — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:11:41 +0000

Actually most scientific fundamental concepts were developed before the 19th century, with the most important ones which are taught in primary and secondary curricula being discovered and developed by the brightest scientists of all time between the 16th and the 18th century. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_physics_concepts_in_primary_and_secondary_education_curricula).

By: Lizz

Lizz — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:52:35 +0000

What’s the fuss? Just move them to the history section.

Having said that, I’m sure they would find the history books equally outdated, in which case they should transfer those to a Heritage Malta museum.

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:05:58 +0000

Why are you surprised?

We have MLP parliamentarians and an EU Commissioner almost predating the first moon landing.