Comments on: Libraries: Books Are a Hard Sell http://www.bibliophilic.org/2007/01/30/libraries-books-are-a-hard-sell/ ...for the love of books... Sat, 02 May 2026 10:35:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: 2magnitude http://www.bibliophilic.org/2007/01/30/libraries-books-are-a-hard-sell/#comment-241916 2magnitude Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:37:01 +0000 http://www.bibliophilic.org/2007/01/30/libraries-between-scylla-and-charybdis/#comment-241916 <strong>3elongated...</strong> ... 3elongated…

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]]> By: chris http://www.bibliophilic.org/2007/01/30/libraries-books-are-a-hard-sell/#comment-4 chris Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:10:06 +0000 http://www.bibliophilic.org/2007/01/30/libraries-between-scylla-and-charybdis/#comment-4 that makes me sad - as a child and teen I spent hours and hours browsing library shelves. While I may not have checked out many of those books, I was still exposed to a broad range of classics. Perhaps counting the number of borrows is the wrong metric to use? It also occurs to me that with better interlibrary loan, maybe libraries should start specializing so instead of every library purging their classics in favor of contemporary bestsellers, there should be libraries that specialize in classics? that makes me sad - as a child and teen I spent hours and hours browsing library shelves. While I may not have checked out many of those books, I was still exposed to a broad range of classics.

Perhaps counting the number of borrows is the wrong metric to use?

It also occurs to me that with better interlibrary loan, maybe libraries should start specializing so instead of every library purging their classics in favor of contemporary bestsellers, there should be libraries that specialize in classics?

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