Report: San Diego Public Library Reverses Decision to Give Up Federal Government Document Status, Will Keep Small Collection

From the San Diego Union Tribune:

San Diego library officials have reversed a year-old decision to end the library’s 138-year tenure as an official depository for government documents, deciding instead to maintain a small collection of San Diego-specific documents.

The decision was hailed by critics who said last winter that the move would have cost the 36-branch city library system some prestige and deprived some users of access to many documents that haven’t been digitized.

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Freeing up space and staff time was the goal of relinquishing the library’s status as a federal depository for government documents, but [Head librarian Misty] Jones said officials have decided it makes more sense to retain “partial selective” status in the program.

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