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You will have read that the Librarian sold 95,000 volumes from Uris –more than half the collection -- to the Chinese. The Library Board was reportedly told that this sale of duplicates might bring in a million dollars but apparently these books have been let go for around $1.00 per volume—one tenth of that. For this small sum we are losing the possibility with which we are all familiar, of searching for a book and finding that while the Olin copy has been taken out, we can get a copy from Uris – very useful indeed. What purpose does this sale serve? The Library is now a “partner” with a middle rank university in China, Tsinghua University, which doubtless will bring trips to China, as well as occasions for the Librarian to dress up.