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Weeding is Fundamental
99% Invisible
The Library's Secret Weapon, the Card Catalog
Nicholson Baker is a writer of novels and essays that celebrate the minutia of daily life. The San Francisco Public Library had a very ornate, beautiful card catalog. If a book was read tagged and weeded, it wouldn't be registered in the new digital system. In their email to Nicholson Baker, the librarians wrote, you're the only one who can save it now.
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