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Originally Posted by frahse
Necessary for the old libraries which can have books a hundred or more years old. One guide was to run a cleaning cycle for the entire collection every 5 to 8 years.
Now days, we have easier ways to prevent dust and mildew..
First a clean filtered air supply. (The real change in the last 50 years.)
Floors totally cleaned every day so as not to have dirt and dust to kick around. Mats at the entrances to catch the dirt.
Vacuuming floors, shelves and books.
Many of the older books, at least, are copied to digital media.
I remember librarians, usually young interns, dusting each shelf with a feather duster or nowadays it would be microfiber perhaps.
See Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Wash.../dp/B07PN4QJD4 |
I'm now curious as to the cleaning routine of my city's library warehouse (their solution to maintaining less cluttered library branches with plenty of room for computers while still keeping the less popular scholarly books available through the hold system).
As for the main topic, believing that it is reasonable to licence ebooks on a term basis to libraries rather then selling a permanent licence is not the same as believing that the terms and rents that are currently being charged are reasonable. I think that the cost of an ebook licence for a library should be no more (over the lifetime of the licence) then the cost of the equivalent paper book (over the expected lifetime of a book of that type).