Twilight of the Libraries: What Gets Lost When Books Go Off-Site and Online | The Walrus

Libraries can’t escape the push for digitization, but we still need actual books on shelves.

It is now a commonplace in the library literature that “many libraries are undertaking massive book deselection projects.” The digital vendor ProQuest recently announced “that out of more than 400 librarians surveyed, 78 percent of the respondents reported that they are deselecting print book collections” to reclaim library space for other purposes.

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