Carnegie was iirc denied access to libraries which led him to promote public libraries that enable learning. From my perspective it’s fair that not every town o

Carnegie was iirc denied access to libraries which led him to promote public libraries that enable learning. From my perspective it’s fair that not every town opts to keep a physical archive of every book. However it would be great if every book that is decommissioned is scanned if not already digitally preserved and each new book should probably submitted for archival purposes in digital form by the publisher to the national library directly nowadays. Just as the laws typically require a physical copy of the book to submitted to the national libraries (here in Germany it’s the „state“ library that received books, in order to reduce the risk of book destruction in case of fascist take over and Gleichschaltung. This would be a concern for a centralized archive.org I would hope there is a great backup strategy in place that can prevent deletions from the archive