id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13980 American Library Association, Letters 1984-01-01 4 .pdf application/pdf 1330 98 71 This is absurd; I am talking about the waste that is taking place right now in the planning and construction of dozens of academic library buildings. In general, newer ways of storing and transmitting information im- ply that academic library buildings in the distant future may not require as much collection space as they do now-but in the meantime there are 600,000,000 bound volumes to be accommodated. cache/crl-13980.pdf txt/crl-13980.txt