Library of CongressA disturbing report in the Washington Post indicates that millions of items are missing or misplaced at the Library of Congress.

Maybe it is time to digitize the collection and make multiple distributed copies. LOC has some digitization efforts going on, but obviously it could stand more.

Moderator’s note: I wonder if any libraries are threatened by the California fires. Katrina was hell on New Orleans’ collections. – DR

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  1. When we toured the LoC in August one thing they talked about was digitizing the collection. They are quite a ways down the road on the project.

    I’ll bet any library has mis-shelved items. They definitely have stolen items. This is a big library, so we have lots of potential for both.

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