“a tremendous amount of printed material disappears from the public sphere of information when it exits the library.”
“The Reanimation Library is a small, independent library based in Brooklyn. It is a collection of books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation. Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles across the country and given new life as resource material for artists, writers, and other cultural archeologists.”
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“The Reanimation Library acts as a laboratory for investigating how the representation of analog information can be integrated into a digital environment. We understand that to a large degree, the future health of the library profession is dependent upon its ability to make its vast store of analog resources discoverable through digital channels.”
http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/pages/overview.htm