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Destruction of Manchester library books halted after writers' campaign
October 4, 2012 - 8:47am — Blake
Destruction of Manchester library books halted after writers' campaign
A campaign by the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and a number of other literary names to stop the destruction of hundreds of thousands of books at the UK's largest municipal library appeared to have succeeded.
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Although if you read the article it's clear what is happening
Stock control and an organised holdings procedure seems like a massacre to people that don't know what is going on.
If the Friends want to keep these books maybe they should be delivered to their homes for safekeeping?
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