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...terms of cost, Freitag says, it is much less expensive to buy a duplicate microfilm of a book ($1) or to rebind it ($6), than to microfilm it ($50). Because Harvard libraries operate under a decentralized system, money for preservation must come out of each individual library's budget, Freitag says. "That determines how much they can preserve...
First Impressions (book by Abe Burrows; music and lyrics by Robert Goldman. Glenn Paxton and George Weiss; choreography by Jonathan Lucas). Take a masterpiece. Tear out half its pages. Stuff the empty places with songs and dances. Rebind in expensive period finery. Open on Broadway, and pray that it is another My Fair Lady...
...turn the school administration over to a one-man Superintendent, limit the Board of Education to policy making. To save money the Committee would retire teachers over 65, cut classroom hours in high schools to levels accepted in other cities, reorganize purchasing, improve accounting, economize on heat and power, rebind old textbooks, set up a typewriter repair shop. Out would go the "venerable but vicious system" whereby most school janitors operate on contract, some earn more than $11,000 annually by "subcontracting" and exploiting janitorial helpers...
...volumes, still less of stray pages, of the Britannica are not to be procured from the publishers, and cannot be picked up at the booksellers. To buy a new set, to reprint the missing pages, or even to mend the old pages if they should be returned and to rebind the volume, will be a serious expense, yet the Library must in some way repair the loss. Any course of action or any expression of opinion that will prevent such destruction in the future, we should be prompt to adopt...
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