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Think about it this way - to view the particular page, article etc you would have to be able to travel to the library in person to view it. If digitized multiple people across the entire globe can access the content. Furthermore printed material degrades over time and at some point becomes unreadable. By digitizing it it remains accessible to future generations. Who knows what may or may not be of interest to future generations. Storage is cheap - historic information is priceless.