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Sylvia Caras <[log in to unmask]>
Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:45:06 -0700
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Public access to EPA libraries and collections will end as soon as 
possible; As many as 80,000 original documents which are not 
electronically available will be boxed up ("put their collections 
into stasis," in the words of the EPA memo) and shipped for eventual 
"digitizing."

"The central fiction is EPA's promise to digitize its entire massive 
collection, making everything available online someday ... The idea 
that library closures are a purely budgetary move is increasingly 
hard to swallow.  What is going on inside EPA is positively Orwellian."

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