Extollager
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"...the world’s moved on, and we don’t need to keep these," says the National Librarian.
That rationale makes me uneasy. Who says? Who says the direction the world has moved means they should get rid of books that don't fall in with that direction (?)?
I don't know. I do know that, a few years ago, when I was completing my collection -- mostly by making photocopies -- of the novels of Phyllis Paul, the National Library of New Zealand was the one library on the planet that had, or would loan, the book I needed. I doubt it had been much checked out. Perhaps my (rather, my borrowing library's) use of the book will save it from being discarded.
Put a different way, if I waited till, say, 2025 to try to get the book, would I have been able to, at any price?
Sure, libraries "can't save everything," but I still kind of felt a bit of icicle in the stomach about this.
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That rationale makes me uneasy. Who says? Who says the direction the world has moved means they should get rid of books that don't fall in with that direction (?)?
I don't know. I do know that, a few years ago, when I was completing my collection -- mostly by making photocopies -- of the novels of Phyllis Paul, the National Library of New Zealand was the one library on the planet that had, or would loan, the book I needed. I doubt it had been much checked out. Perhaps my (rather, my borrowing library's) use of the book will save it from being discarded.
Phyllis Paul: Twice Lost, Pulled Down, Invisible Darkness, A Little Treachery, more
Phyllis Paul (1903-1973) is, at this time, necessarily a "cult novelist" in that nearly all of her books are so hard to get hold of that those who have read more than one of them and want to talk about their reading will find few others who have read more than one. One or two of her novels...
www.sffchronicles.com
Put a different way, if I waited till, say, 2025 to try to get the book, would I have been able to, at any price?
Sure, libraries "can't save everything," but I still kind of felt a bit of icicle in the stomach about this.
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