Too interesting not to share ... forwarded from Exlibris

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Subject:        Missing in the LC
Date:   Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:00:01 -0400
From:   William S. Peterson <[log in to unmask]>
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An interesting article in the /Washington Post/ today indicating that
one-sixth of the books and periodicals in the Library of Congress have
been misplaced (link below). I'm a regular user of the LC, and I would
place the figure much higher. What baffles me is that I also spend quite
a bit of time at the British Library, which has problems of a different
sort but very rarely loses books.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102301784.html


Bill Peterson