{"id":10441,"date":"2018-02-23T16:51:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T05:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T05:56:10","slug":"46-great-opening-lines-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=10441","title":{"rendered":"46 Great Opening Lines: 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alicia Martin,\u00a0<em>&#8216;Biografias&#8217;<\/em>, installation in Cordoba, Spain, Photo courtesy of Toni Castillo Quero, Creative Commons<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the past decade university \u00adlibraries have been systematically removing books from their shelves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Wilding, &#8216;University Libraries should Preserve Printed Books&#8217; in <em>The Weekend Australian<\/em>, 23rd August 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/16\/46-great-opening-lines-25\/\">Last week&#8217;s<\/a> opening line came from a short story by Michael Wilding. Now I&#8217;m drawing on him again, but today&#8217;s opening line is no fiction. It&#8217;s sadly the absolute truth about our libraries. He has written at least three pieces over the past seven years to alert the world to the emptying of its libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Wilding is in some ways a man after my own heart. I&#8217;ve been told that my local university library will one day be purged of old French books (among other foreigners), so I&#8217;ve been borrowing what I can to prove they are wanted, to keep them out of the book cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2014 Wilding wrote &#8216;Libraries Under Threat&#8217; in <em>Sydney Review of Books, <\/em>and revealed what happened to some books from the University of Western Sydney:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; skip loads of books deemed duplicates, silver-fish infested and surplus to requirements were thrown out and used for landfill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hold onto that word &#8216;landfill&#8217;. I&#8217;ll be back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alicia Martin,\u00a0&#8216;Biografias&#8217;, installation in Cordoba, Spain, Photo courtesy of Toni Castillo Quero, Creative Commons * Over the past decade university \u00adlibraries have been systematically removing books from their shelves. Michael Wilding, &#8216;University Libraries should Preserve Printed Books&#8217; in The Weekend Australian, 23rd August 2017 Last week&#8217;s opening line came from a short story by Michael &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=10441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;46 Great Opening Lines: 26&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1088],"tags":[1189,1191,1190,1188,2,1182,246,417],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-46-great-opening-lines","tag-alicia-martin","tag-biografias-installation","tag-book-sculpture","tag-libraries","tag-literature","tag-michael-wilding","tag-opening-lines","tag-sculpture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10534,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions\/10534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}