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by ocdtrekkie 2720 days ago
You can censor a physical library too, so this isn't super relevant to the library's lean towards physical or digital media. As someone who uses the LoC catalog, it's amazing how slow it is, I buy an eBook dated 2016, and LoC maybe has a stub record for the book as something it hasn't received yet.

There's huge value in electronic submission and electronic availability of resources which could really make the LoC useful to the modern everyday American. The LoC will surely always get physical copies of content of significant note, but plenty of trivial media entries with little historical value, a.k.a. "how to use this recent JavaScript framework" are likely better handled and retained digitally.