No Disposals

Note
When you start to cull your National Library collection along predetermined lines -- in this case, an increasingly narrow definition of what is ‘of local interest’ — you inhibit the ability to make unexpected connections. A nation as small as ours, in so illimitable an ocean, cannot afford to cut off its possibilities in so short-sighted a way. Wallace Stevens may be trusted to stay on our shelves, but even land-locked Bolivia may be part of our story -- or we part of theirs.