Looking for an easy but scientifically reliable programme for making books, articles and documents accessible

In 1988/89 I made an inventory of my books (2000) with a Windows 2 programme. It could only digest 1000. So I had to separate it into 2 sets.
Later on, in 1994/5 I developed with Paradox a more sophisticated approach. Search on author, title, epoch, year, country, language, subject etc became possible. Citations could be inserted in articles and references simplified. I am still very proud of my development skills, but the 4000 books and documents I have to record at this point of time cannot find their place in my primitive Paradox records.
That is why I am looking for advice. I tried programmes designed for videoshops. No way.
I assume that libraries all over the world have good programmes to make their books etc. accessible. Are they 'on the market'?
Please, tell me about predesigned programmes for categorizing books and documents.
You will help me so much!

Tired of Daily Godwins, Mr. Wilders? - Try this #Stalwin instead!

"I wish to announce that we shall not prevent Dutch citizens with origins in Islamic countries from returning to their countries. Our position is, that every Dutch citizen should have one country: the Netherlands ... Let those who feel that these words are addressed to them, irrespective of their nationality, draw the proper conclusion. We do not want a Fifth Column in our country."

Nothing special, as long as you assume that these words were spoken by Mr. Geert Wilders in the year 2007 and repeated ever since.
Dutch people got used to these xenophobic, stealthily racist, one-liners. An international public followed suit.

The ressemblance of the creepy racist spin of Mr. Wilders and consorts with the introduction of Anti-Semitism by the Nazis during the twenties and thirties of the 20th century as a national ideology, is striking. Thence, we publish now and then some #DailyGodwins on Twitter and Facebook.

 "A Godwin A Day Keeps Blondi Away".

The efficiency of our "Godwins" is doubtful. People do not want to hear this. "Stop living in WW2!" "Live a Life Old Fool!" "Hitler was a Socialist like You!" - These are some of the dishes offered daily on our menu of replies.

I do not believe much in God. But in Godwinning, I do. The #Stalwin comparisons I introduce to you today, are meant to illustrate that xenophobia never went away after World War II. Deadly and despicable anti-semitism was a feature of late Stalinism. (Correction: It was one of the aspects of state terrorism in the USSR during the thirties already). The "Jewish Doctors" affair, the Raikh and the Slansky processes. It did not stop altogether after Stalin's death in 1953. A new upsurge of anti-semitism occurred in Gomulka's Poland (of all places!) in 1967.

You imagine (and I remember) how strongly we despised Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish Party leader and a reputed "innovator", when he declared what is quoted at the start of this article! - Oh, well, you only have to replace "Dutch" and "Netherlands" with Polish and Poland. And "origins in Islamic countries" with "Jewish origins".

Do you see the parallel? Or are you blind?

More #Stalwins are to come.
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Nederlandse vertaling van de brontekst:
Wladyslaw Gomulka, 19 juni 1967: "We willen Polen van joodse afkomst niet verhinderen om naar Israël terug (!) te gaan... Wij zijn van mening dat elke Poolse burger slechts één nationaliteit mag hebben... Laten de mensen die zich aangesproken voelen, daaruit hun conclusies trekken. We willen geen Vijfde Colonne in ons land." (Tony Judt, Postwar, A History of Europe since 1945, pp 434/435)

Wertheim: Modern-Day Racism. A Mixture that Calls for Some Clarification [EN]

Propagators of modern-day racism, which is often called Islamophobia in an effort to take off the edge, claim that all they are doing is warning people about what they see as the danger of Islam, and that it has nothing to do with racism. But it is a misconception to think that racism only pertains to the physical features people are born with. Throughout history, cultural characteristics that people develop in the course of their lives have also been grounds for maligning and excluding certain groups. The competition racism that mercantile minorities all across the globe have been, and still are, confronted with, as well as the anti-Semitism in pre-WWII Europe, were imbued with cultural prejudices, and never failed to include the item of religion.

Nonetheless it is understandable that people feel confused. Modern-day racism is a mixture of two types of racism, exploitation or colonial racism and cultural or competition racism. Thus, while focusing primarily on a cultural aspect of the group, such as Islam, their religion, there still exists a focus on the group’s physical features. I will try to explain this in my article.

I was born in Indonesia when it was still a Dutch colony...

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Eerbewijs aan Tony Judt, groot historicus, scherpe analyses van de Europese ziekte van het kultuurracisme [NL]

De Amsterdamse ex-journalist en blogger Maarten Jan Hijmans (Abu Pessoptimist) schreef een goed IM over Tony Judt. Hieronder nemen we die integraal over met toestemming van de auteur.

7 augustus 2010:

Tony Judt overleden

Het blog Mondoweiss meldde vanmorgen als eerste dat Tony Judt is overleden. Judt, geboren in 1948 in Londen, was historicus gespecialiseerd in Europese geschiedenis, docent aan de universiteit van New York en directeur van het Erich Maria Remarque Instituut van deze universiteit. Hij leed sinds ruim een jaar aan ALS, ook ziekte van Lou Gehrig genoemd, die geleidelijk het hele lichaam verlamt.
Judt was een intellectuele gigant, bij een groter publiek bekend van regelmatige bijdragen aan bladen als de New York Review of Books. Judt, die oorspronkelijk zionist was - in de oorlog van 1967 was hij vrijwilliger in een kibbutz -  kwam in later jaren tot het inzicht dat de manier waarop Israel reilt en zeilt catastrofaal uit heeft gepakt. Kort geleden ontwikkelde hij zich tot voorstander van een ontwikkeling naar een binationale staat waar Joden en Palestijnen gelijke rechten hebben. Hij was iemand die volmondig voor zijn mening uitkwam en controverse niet uit de weg ging:

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