Well, one of the arguments is that there are things that never change (or rather change extremely slowly). For example, books on Assembly language programming. They haven't changed much during the last 20 years. "Art of Computer Programming" is mostly about concepts that never change (or, again, rather change extremely slowly).

As another good argument in your case I would consider a collection of reviews for the books you want your library dean to consider. One of the places for reviews of technical books is of course Slashdot.

Leonid Mamtchenkov aka TVSET

In reply to Re: OT: Lobbying college library for Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" by TVSET
in thread OT: Lobbying college library for Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" by parv

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