This is why the number one priority of every library with rare books/manuscript/maps should be to get them digitized and distributed as widely as possible. Thes

This is why the number one priority of every library with rare books/manuscript/maps should be to get them digitized and distributed as widely as possible. These old works are out of copyright anyway, so there should not be legal issues to doing that. Basically, anything that is stored in a single place is vulnerable.