I see that you have never met your uptight control freak of a homeowners' association president.
In many states, there is a published list of species that qualify as noxious or invasive. In the HOA busybody's mind, a weed is anything that is not the approved cultivar of grass and anything taller than 4 inches high. This disconnect is bound to cause some controversy somewhere.
I would think that with library card catalogs going electronic, a ranking algorithm could automatically establish a culling order for books, picking them off the bottom to be unbound and photographed or digitized, so that there is just enough shelf space made available for both the incoming books and the redundant storage backups.
After all, they were able to put periodicals on microfiche and thus store more of them, weren't they? There's no reason to trash anything if you can make its bits small enough.
In many states, there is a published list of species that qualify as noxious or invasive. In the HOA busybody's mind, a weed is anything that is not the approved cultivar of grass and anything taller than 4 inches high. This disconnect is bound to cause some controversy somewhere.
I would think that with library card catalogs going electronic, a ranking algorithm could automatically establish a culling order for books, picking them off the bottom to be unbound and photographed or digitized, so that there is just enough shelf space made available for both the incoming books and the redundant storage backups.
After all, they were able to put periodicals on microfiche and thus store more of them, weren't they? There's no reason to trash anything if you can make its bits small enough.