This is not heroic man vs. machine. This is fraud and hoarding. The suburban Florida branch is not housing some great work of fiction that will come back into vogue or cost an insane amount of money to replace. The average user in the system there checks out 24 books a year- chuck finley was on pace for over 3,000.
Decisions of what new titles to order is often made on use of current materials (or should be!) and this practice also throws off future ordering, wasting those precious funds on more books that people don’t want to read. This is not a practice to emulate. If you want to “save” books, market them. Recommend them, display them, put them in the newsletter. We cannot simply be a warehouse for dust collectors.
