Re: [ARSCLIST] Interesting WSJ Article on when libraries should discard their holdings.

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From: Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:38:36 +0000
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On 03/01/07, Steven Smolian wrote:
> There are circulating libraries and research libraries.  They perform 
> different functions.
> 
True, but even a circulating library ought to keep the main classics in
stock. There are always new readers coming along, who haven't read any
Hemingway yet. (Or Dickens, or Jane Austen, or Mark Twain....)

Two years is a very short cut off period. Ten or fifteen would be more
sensible.

Otherwise the library is just competing with the local bookstore, and
may well drive it out of business.

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Don Cox
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