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[msmemory_archive]

Work is depressing. I've been asked to come up with a plan for reducing the library square footage by half, together with an impact statement about what we lose if we follow through. This place is my baby, and I look around and try to identify 1/2 of the collection (at least in linear shelf space terms) to throw away. Would you throw away half your family? Would your choices change if you knew you were going to be second-guessed by Uber-Boss, but Uber hasn't responded to your memo requesting input?

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[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Ugh! What a horrible choice to have to make.

I suppose the best place to start would be to see if you can identify areas of redundancy -- so if you've got material in one book that's covered adequately in another (or in parts of several others) then you could get rid of that. Then there's anything that can easily be found on the 'net -- especially government statistics and stuff like that which gets updated regularly.

I'll keep my cow-orkers and the VP of Doom thanks, because most of the time none of them bother me. (But when they do... Oy!)

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

The biggest target is the NASA document collection, many of which are available in pdf on NASA's own servers. That's saving my bacon because I can point to it for immediate space savings. (There's a moderate nuisance in that I have to confirm we have or can obtain the pdf before tossing the paper copy, but still.)

The next target is periodicals on general business and international trade, which were particularly of interest to Former Uber, who has retired.