The Manual for Civilization Begins — Blog of the Long Now
blog.longnow.org/02014/02/06/manual-for-civilization-begins
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
As we near completion of The Interval at Long Now, our new venue in San Francisco, we are also building a collection of books that will reside here. We have named this collection the Manual for Civilization, and it will include the roughly 3500 books most essential to sustain or rebuild civilization. Using this as an curatorial principle is helping us assemble a very interesting collection of books.