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   * archival boxes as needed
   * **bookends**
+  * labels
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 An entire shelf of randomness has accumulated. It's not that this randomness can't be accommodated somewhere in the library, but rather, whether it should. It all comes back to sifting and sorting stuff out. **There could be critical documents in this shelf.** Yet there also appears to be many photocopied books or manuals, duplicates, looseleaf handouts that don't need to be kept. There are some notebooks and folios of apparent artistic effort.
-We presently have the luxury of a dedicated library space (even if it often just ends up as a storeroom), but in coming years this will by no means be guaranteed. The physical part of the library could be split asunder, divided, spread to the winds and across numerous bookshelves, basements, cellars and larders across the world.
+We presently have the luxury of a dedicated library space (even if it often just ends up as a storeroom), but in coming years this will by no means be guaranteed. The physical part of the library could be split asunder, divided, spread to the winds and across numerous bookshelves, basements, cellars and larders over the world.
 What are the implications? How might the collection become more "mobile"? First, the excess could be discarded. Multiple redundant copies, irrelevant material, //useless ephemera//… But second, the digital catalogue might become much more important: metadata, notes, comments, connections in the database, but also digitised copies. Although this opens a whole can of worms with all the (active or passive) copyright issues…