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From: "Karl Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> However, with libraries, it seems that the unique and special don't
> produce the use numbers and hence those unique materials crumble. They
> seem to ignore where their future might likely be...or so it seems to me.
> 
Consider, also, the fact that many of these institutions have to depend
on today's neo-populist governments for funding...with voters who believe
in tax cuts above all else...

Steven C. Barr