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wsj: checked out.

What are libraries for? Are they cultural storehouses that contain the best that has been thought and said? Or are they more like actual stores, responding to whatever fickle taste or Mitch Albom tearjerker is all the rage at this very moment?"

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I do have one question: if the taxpayers/patrons take the library to task for not keeping current bestsellers, and librarians are not to throw away classics and there is no levy for a building expansion, at what point do the shelves run out of room

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