Kathleene passed along This tallahassee.com story that says Librarians from across Florida urged legislators Monday to allow a little “weeding” of unneeded books, rather than uprooting the State Library from Tallahassee as Gov. Jeb Bush has proposed in his budget.
“I fear that by breaking up the collection, we’ll become more forgetful than we already are,” he said. “Florida is a state of newcomers; we lack a cultural memory. Our real historic resources are in that building and to the extent that we scatter them, we may as well be throwing out our own heritage, our own consciousness, up in the air.”
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