> Would have been nice to have an executive summary That's Indexing and Abstracting, not Cataloging, a different area of librarianship/information science. So

> Would have been nice to have an executive summary That's Indexing and Abstracting, not Cataloging, a different area of librarianship/information science. Sorry. More seriously: The poster must have had some context in mind when they posted this to HN and it would be interesting to learn what that was; even if it was just "TIL libraries don't keep books forever."