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      <![CDATA[Being a library employee i feel people should be grateful for us getting rid of materials. If you only knew the condition these books come back in.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Greg Evans]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I believe that Pima County's low ranking in the area of print materials is the result of a deliberate policy decision and not due to its being in a warm weather area. Four of the top ten ranking libraries in the Institute of Museum and Library Services survey I cited (out of 29, where we rank 28), after all, are located in California or Florida.
        
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      <![CDATA[Pima County's low ranking in the area of print materials per resident is largely due to its being a warm-weather area, with lots of recreational opportunities year-round (as well as being in a state with a tax-phobic conservative government, but that's another story). The highest-ranking areas, on the other hand, are in colder climates like the Midwest, where you want to have lots of books on hand when you're snowed in and can't go outside much.
        
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      <![CDATA[People need to read more, gripe less! There is a book about that - "A Complaining Free World" by Will Bowen!<br>
Ellice B.
        
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      <![CDATA[What does it say about an over-enthuastic weeding/culling/discard policy when books with a 2011 copyright date (and even 2012 date) are being taken out of circulation? I've seen these -- they are not in horrendous condition (broken spines, water-damage, etc.), only apparent victims of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
        
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      <![CDATA[To try and redeem the PCPL's discard policy by calling on the panacea of ebooks and digital "transformations" is, I believe, a mistake. First of all, the PCPL policy of maintaining a poor book collection predates any meaningful use of ebooks, and so why should we think it do any better with ebooks?
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:48:12 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Counting books and bookshelves today is akin to counting horseshoes and blacksmith shops 100 years ago. These are examples of transformative situations.<br>
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The Institute of Museums and Library Services recognized a number of transformations in its Public Libraries Survey Fiscal Year 2009 published in October 2011 (available on-line at <a href="http://www.imls.gov/assets/1/News/PLS2009.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.imls.gov/assets/1/News/PLS2009.&hellip;</a>.
        
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      <![CDATA[The collection development policy currently in use by the PCPL was put into place when the City of Tucson ran the library system. Former library director Agnes Griffen and her predecessors were the ones responsible for these policies.
        
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      <![CDATA[Not only is the library discarding perfectly in almost mint condition books they refuse to have a security system in place and hundreds of thousands of dollars of books are "walking" out the door never to even have a paper trail of what happened to them. This is called "loss rate" and the PCPL is terrible at this and DVDs, music CDs, expensive art books are goners with folks taking them with no security system to put a stop to this.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:05:17 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[--What do you mean by "discarded?" Do the books go to the landfill, are they sold or what?--<br>
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The books discarded by the library are sold at the  Friends of the Pimaa County Public Library  and the money is given back to the library to fund various things the library sponsors.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:24:16 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[karla_marieg]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I wondered why it was so hard to find older, even popular older, books at the library for myself as well as my children (school-aged and teens). I moved to Tucson 4 years ago, and live on the southwest side of town.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:33:19 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Oh wait, I found the thing on their site where you can compare stats from different libraries. And man you're right, we do spend a lot on our books compared to other libraries.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:12:18 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Just curious, could you link to the sources you used to write this article? I tried searching the Institute for Museum and Library Services website but couldn't find anything related to this kind of data.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:39:21 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Marty]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I agree completely with the column. I don't read much non-fiction, but the fiction is weeded so rapidly that any titles more than a few years old are hard to get.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:05:16 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Michael A Gatto]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I agree completely with the author and decry PCPL's overly aggressive weeding of non-fiction books as well!<br>
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I recently visited a library in the Canadian town of Banff, and was super surprised to see its collection rival the PCPL's non-fiction collection in general and even beat it especially in the travel and language sections. Stop discarding books.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:49:25 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[What do you mean by "discarded?" Do the books go to the landfill, are they sold or what?
        
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