More people read the paper than anything else. So, I'm saying that libraries, if they have a run of one of those great papers, ought to keep it, period. We have to learn from that recent example now, as we begin another fearsomely expensive phase of making digital pictures of the pages of books, and build into the copying process a prohibition on guillotining and a requirement for the safe storage of all source originals. I leave that to you to decide. Since we have it on the shelf now, we know it's physically possible to keep it.
Nothing is inevitable.
It's just a question of what we decide to do. I must take a shower now. Last week I gave a talk at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Duke University's storage warehouse. In other words, it cost them three dollars a book to build the building, and the overhead will run below 20 cents per year per book. All contents copyright Gary Frost, 2000.