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Weeding is Fundamental
99% Invisible
Weeding Is a Touchy Subject
After the 1989 earthquake, San Francisco Public Library started weeding an unusual amount of books. Librarians were told to move quickly and didn't use musty or any sort of comparable system. Even battle-hardened librarians felt that the weeding was happening too fast. In Jason Gibbs's department, for example, the discarded books got sent to an abandoned hospital owned by the city.
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