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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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The first thing that comes to my mind is the shelving system my dr's office has: the bookcases are hung on rails almost flush together, and they easily slide them out of the way when they want to get to the files in the hidden cases. Ta da! Reducing square footage without reducing the collection.

The ideas about digital copies of things are great, too, and I like that you have some immediate low-hanging fruit to target.