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Libraries purge books literally all the time, and have been for years. Forex: http://awfullibrarybooks.net http://awfullibrarybooks.net
by GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
Libraries purge books literally all the time, and have been for years. Forex: http://awfullibrarybooks.net http://awfullibrarybooks.net
- wyclif 11y agoThey do, but the OP isn't talking about purging awful Whitney Houston books or old WordPerfect manuals from the '80s. He's talking about the tipping point when libraries decide it isn't worth keeping print copies of valuable works around because they've been digitized. We haven't reached that tipping point yet.
- ghaff 11y agoNo, but this sort of question was very much a part of the controversial New York Public Library renovation plans. [1] It was/is a complex project with a lot of moving parts but certainly part of it revolved around the number of books to store, how accessible they would be, and how optimized their storage conditions. [1] http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-new-york-public-library-comes-around http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-new-york-publ...