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The library is -- it seems -- getting ridding of stuff without directly replacing it (scanning for example) but substituting online references. Dated reference material will have future value to historians -- think of city directories.
Imagine a city block of Edwardian homes torn down for condos. You get better, more modern housing, safer more fire proof dwellings -- more housing even -- but something is lost instead of maintaining and upgrading the old.
I fully support more ebooks, and online references. But sometimes improvements lose things.
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