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Originally Posted by HarryT
Are you sure about that? I thought that they did have to keep them all. That's why copyright libraries, such as the British Library, and the Bodleian in Oxford, have to add miles of extra shelves every year. I could of course be mistaken  . |
EDIT: A little research seems to indicate that the British Library does keep everything, but the Library of Congress is "selective about which works it retains", but still adds about 3 million books a year to its collection.