"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)

WHEN Doddy Tisna Amidjaja died, he left behind his collection of 26,000 books. Ten years ago and close to death, Amidjaja, rector of Bandung Institute of Technology between 1969 and 1977, weakly told his wife: "Knowledge must be put to use for the society."

Prompted either by the nobility of her husband's dying words, or by her own reluctance to si