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And Then They Came for the Books…

From Truthstream Media

A look inside what is happening with digitized books and who can access them. There’s clearly more to the quiet disappearance of hard copies than meets the eye. Brilliant research as always by Truthstream Media.

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NZ’s National Library is culling 600,000 books

Wiping out the data. Same as the internet cull. Precursor to tyranny. Guns gone, info going, censorship increasing, democracy gone, health freedoms going fast. Military on the streets. All the ducks in a row. EWR

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Academics, historians, researchers and scholars feel a literary crime is taking place during the distraction of the global pandemic.

Sheltered in the bunkers beneath the National Library in New Zealand’s capital rests a treasure trove of books, including nearly 2,200 first editions that have been carefully looked after for decades. But not for much longer.

The “overseas collection” – which includes a first edition of Richard Neville’s Play Power, a 1912 edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and multiple first editions of Graham Greene novels – is now headed out the door.

In total, the National Library in Wellington plans to get rid of more than 600,000 “foreign books” from their collection, saying they need to make space for more works on New Zealand, of which there are an additional 80,000 to 90,000 to store each year.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/i-literally-weep-anguish-as-new-zealands-national-library-culls-600000-books?fbclid=IwAR0khP8V_jqqI5gp2abniZac6Lk12ChFil0Braul9GTtd8Letwy-PleNbPE

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Barbarians At the Gates: The systematic looting of our galleries archives and libraries – (updated post)

Updated post from postmanproductions.wordpress.com

“As closed signs pop up collections are looted purged and or collections moved out of reach of public researchers. As developers and smart technology hyenas move in.”

READ THE ARTICLE:

https://postmanproductions.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/barbarians-at-the-gates-the-systematic-looting-of-our-galleries-archives-and-libraries/?fbclid=IwAR0lx0y2mFlo68a2wGFvPEPJUnoTKKPtAD_v3uixFPya2oGHYXvknFpZQhA

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