Re: [ARSCLIST] Interesting WSJ Article on when libraries should discard their holdings.

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Speaking of Hemingway, recently released new audiobooks of the most popular works, I think both 
unabrdiged and mass-market versions, have gotten good reviews.

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From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Interesting WSJ Article on when libraries should discard their holdings.


> On 03/01/07, Steven Smolian wrote:
> > There are circulating libraries and research libraries.  They perform
> > different functions.
> True, but even a circulating library ought to keep the main classics in
> stock. There are always new readers coming along, who haven't read any
> Hemingway yet. (Or Dickens, or Jane Austen, or Mark Twain....)
>
> Two years is a very short cut off period. Ten or fifteen would be more
> sensible.
>
> Otherwise the library is just competing with the local bookstore, and
> may well drive it out of business.
>
> Regards
> --
> Don Cox
> doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx