Times Online Reports libraries are being asked to back a scheme that would result in hundreds of thousands of journals and academic books being pulped.
The shortage of shelf space at university libraries is so severe that a central archive is planned to house academic works for all institutions. The National Research Reserve, run by the British Library, would hold and distribute all academic works held in re- search libraries, allowing librarians to destroy material knowing that another copy was available.
Dumbu , and you can kiss everything goodbye.
MANY copies people. Many. Central points of failure are problematic. One nice nuke/meteorite/fire/flood/earthquake/what-have-yo
I’m for moving to electronic copies, multiplied in lots of places via that LOCKSS scheme, over lots of physical copies. But you should keep probably three widely distributed physical copy repositories in addition to the large number of electronic copies.
— Ender, Duke_of_URL