All those books are fairly recent. What if libraries took your advice in the late 50s, quit culling, and said "Oh that new sci-fi thing is a crap fad, we only

All those books are fairly recent. What if libraries took your advice in the late 50s, quit culling, and said "Oh that new sci-fi thing is a crap fad, we only stock the classics." You probably wouldn't even know about these books existing. Maybe a token Asimov book or two, space permitting. Not the hippie stuff you posted (from the perspective of some old librarian in the 50s).