โ€œThe US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts,โ€

โ€œThe traditional practice of libraries is to buy or acquire published materials, preserve and catalog them, and lend them widely and confidentially. (โ€ฆ) But now, in the digital age, every one of these functions has been denied to libraries, or recently even declared illegal in the United States.โ€

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/us-library-system-attack-digital-licensing

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