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[telophase]

This is my workplace. And that is a misleading headline. (And I'm going to have to figure out what the 800K number refers to--the numbers I have are much less. I think my numbers may count all volumes of the run of a bound journal as 1, and the 800K number counts each individual volume.)

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[kore]

Well thank God the books are being shelved instead of tossed - I've heard such horror stories, ugh.

[telophase]

Can I scare you by noting that we've weeded a lot, also? :D

Not in the hundreds of thousands range, of course, but books that aren't used or who are badly out of date and aren't useful as a historical source. Chosen with the help of the faculty.

I remember weeding a dontation from someone's estate in the architecture library I worked in at another university. One of the business office people came over, horrified that we were tossing books, and we were THIS STACK OF BOOKS IS INFESTED WITH BUGS. THEY ARE NOT STAYING HERE. AND THIS STACK IS BUILDING CODES FROM 1956. WE HAVE ONLY 3000 SQUARE FEET OF SPACE IN THIS LIBRARY WE CANNOT DEVOTE SPACE TO BUILDING CODES FROM 1956.

And she was all "But someone might use them!"

NO. NO ONE IS GOING TO USE THEM.