id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13770 Stam, David H. Prove All Things: Hold Fast That Which is Good: Deaccessioning and Research Libraries 1982-01-01 9 .pdf application/pdf 6414 324 65 His concern was the increasing flow of good books into institutional libraries and thus their disap- pearance from the market and the thwarting of the collector. Parenthetically, I should point out that the New York Public Library has a rather check- ered history of duplicate sales, a history that begins before the formal consolidation of the Astor and the Lenox libraries in 1895. cache/crl-13770.pdf txt/crl-13770.txt