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Weeding is Fundamental

99% Invisible

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Gorilla Librarians - The Freedom Fighters

Gibbs: Librarians banded together and called themselves the Gorilla Librarians. They fought for freedom to not put little slips of red paper on books against management's orders, he says. The card catalog is an artifact; most libraries in the world know that and have moved on, Gibbs says. "I will not support the views of the card catalog as a working technology"

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