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Alternative libraries as discursive formations: reclaiming the voice of the deaccessioned book
2012
Journal of Documentation
Purpose -Deaccessioning, the deliberate culling, disposing, or selling of books from a collection, is one of the most controversial aspects of the collection development function of the library. This article aims to examine what can become of this universe of deaccessioned books through a consideration of two alternative libraries, or libraries-which-are-not-libraries. The existence of such alternative libraries allows one to address questions such as: Can the value of a deaccessioned book be
doi:10.1108/00220411211209221
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