LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."

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According to this page, the BNA should be available in the BL's reading rooms if you have an account: bl.libguides.com/reference-se...

I failed to book tickets for Notre Dame the day previous to our planned visit, and I began to despair. However, some more timeslots became available via the app in the morning. And, on arrival, the non-ticket queues were long, but were moving quite steadily anyway (this was a weekday in early Sept)

There used to be a good many in Marzahn, and also along Landsberger Allee. Most of the latter, at least, now seem to have cladding

I guess that you could assess a random sample across the collections? But even that would still be a massive undertaking, especially for something perhaps incidental to your main lines of enquiry.

Libraries often conduct condition assessments, e.g. to inform conservation activities, but I guess that you would need to devise something specific for your research. Some alternative approaches are described in Duran-Casablancas, et al., 2019: doi.org/10.1186/s404...

And as a bonus, a set of call change instructions for the bellringers!

Well done!

Thanks Jim

Thank you Jim. Could you please let me know where you found the map? It looks as if it may be from a published account.