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Originally Posted by John F
Could you share the numbers?
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The close-to-final cost was $3.1 million:
http://www.mainlinemedianews.com/mai...7eeeab764.html
If you look at page 11 here you'll see that in 2010 there were 34,358 books plus 5,794 in off-site storage:
https://www.lmls.org/wp-content/uplo...ual-Report.pdf
I can't find any super-clear statement about this on the web, but the renovation actually reduced the shelf capacity by about 5,000.
Another consideration is that an eBook has, for eBook readers, the same value as a large print book, and those take up an above-average amount of shelf space.
There are of course semi-hidden costs for eBooks as well as for paper, like training librarians.