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The role of neighborhood public libraries is to serve their community. They usually focus on providing equitable access to resources, especially more vulnerable populations. They rarely have the resources to conduct preservation of generally published works. You might see some preservation of titles of local interest. But it’s generally taken on by the central branches of larger public libraries in larger cities, university libraries, state libraries, the library of congress, and archives.

I’m not sure you’ve read this NPR article, as it actually explains a lot of nuance in the decisions that libraries need to make when discarding books.