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I'd be interested to know what the folks at NYPL Labs think of this report that 13% of the material in the Library of Congress catalog can't be located. Would they laugh? shudder? Josh?
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Can't speak for the Labs or the NYPL, but based on my own crash immersion in the actual nuts and bolts of a library with tens of millions of items and a system of organization that has evolved slowly over a hundred years, I've got no stones to throw at the Library of Congress. To me, the last sentence of the Washington Post article says it all.