I concur with B.J. and would add that there is also historiographical significance to the presentation of a unique aggregation of records, which in turn constitute a primary index to how some of these incomparable library collections were built. Admittedly a snapshot, but in many cases, one of great value, still.
Katherine

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I would consider this move carefully <snip>

Katherine Haskins
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Yale University
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