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Re:Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:43AM (#16266153)
It really depends on what the goal of that library is; is it a museum, aimed at preservation of e.g. local history, or is it a supplier of relevant books that operates more like a shop, which tries to keep a small inventory by optimizing for most frequently borrowed? I'm guessing that you could have both, but even then, space is limited.

I'm sure - or, I'm hoping - that that particular book you mentioned is archived somewhere under museum conditions.

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Re:Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:52AM (#16266224)
There's a library book shop where they flog the outgoing volumes. They either get sold in a month, or burned. Since I was the only one checking out that venerable tome, it's probably been burned.
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