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Dear Annemarie van Gaal, in the library they don't have time for bubbly talk.

The interesting thing about Financieel Dagblad columnist Annemarie van Gaal's stories is that you don't have to agree with her text at all but can still enjoy it. In her column in the newspaper of 13 April 2014, however, there is something else going on. Here, the conscience of financial and business Holland shows a very great lack of factual knowledge. Sometimes an opinion is enough, but stupidity - and that is what is going on here - should not go unchallenged.

'Libraries can do better...

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Giep Hagoort

Giep Hagoort (1948) studied law at Utrecht University and obtained his PhD from Nyenrode University in 1998. In 2007, Giep Hagoort was appointed professor in the Faculty of Arts at UU in the field of Art and Economics. Hagoort is a lecturer in Art & Economics at the Faculty of Arts and Economics at HKU and chairman of the knowledge circle of the same name. He is also dean of the Amsterdam School of Management.View Author posts

The interesting thing about Financieel Dagblad columnist Annemarie van Gaal's stories is that you don't have to agree with her text at all but can still enjoy it. In her column in the newspaper of 13 April 2014, however, there is something else going on. Here, the conscience of financial and business Holland shows a very great lack of factual knowledge. Sometimes an opinion is enough, but stupidity - and that is what is going on here - should not go unchallenged.

'Libraries can do better...

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