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They 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
by wyclif 11y ago
They 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...