I do love his quote: "Libraries accept and give up technology reluctantly" - that is certainly the case in school libraries. In my current situation, the school is only ten years old, so I didn't have too many obsolete items to go through (but we do have a HUGE number of cassette players), but in my last library, we had things I couldn't believe we had - film strip players, RECORD players - actually quite a few record players - and even an 8-track player!
I will say this, many times in the school library setting (and I am sure this goes for public libraries too) it is our Patrons (in my case, the teachers) who are more reluctant to give up the old "technology" and so we keep it to keep them happy. You should hear my teachers when I tell them I am only purchasing DVD's instead of videos!
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