Read more: 6 Reasons We’re In Another ‘Book-Burning’ Period in History
“The next thing I’m going to say is going to make 80 percent of you want to punch me in the face, so let’s get it out of the way: For the past year or so, part of my job has been to walk through library warehouses and destroy tens of thousands of often old and irreplaceable books.”
NPR
NPR piece that directly mentions the blog post mentioned in this LISNEWS post.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/10/12/141265066/hard-choices-do-libraries-really-destroy-books