What 20 books would you put in the library?

[Tom Buskey]

On Jan 25, 2008 2:48 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:

> On Jan 24, 2008, at 20:43, Ted Roche wrote:
>
> > What books would you recommend?
>
> Out of twenty I'd limit 20% to theory of open source.  Then, for a
> public library, the focus should be on books on learning subjects,
> not ones to keep around for dog-eared references, excepting cases
> where intro books aren't common or great.  Some examples:
>
> O'Reilly:
> Running Linux
> Learning[Perl, Python]
> Using Samba


Using Samba is freely available online from O'Reilly in addition to being in
print.
They have other books also available.  Perhaps a bookmark list?  How would a
library handle that?

How about a Safari subscription for the library?  I know of at least one
library that has one.
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