This Story, with a wonderful headline, says due to lack of space and funding in UT, libraries are having to discard classic book collections to make room for current materials and access to electronic information. It could eventually boil down to whether they want to have a copy on hand of Homer\’s \”Odyssey\” or their Internet access.
\”Our core collection is a resource that, once lost, the state will never get back. Those books are either no longer available or are very expensive,\” Weber County Library Director Lynnda Wangsgard said. \”But those core works tie us together as communities and as a nation and to lose them would be a tragedy.\”
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