The Hard Copy Blues

I was searching for articles on keeping hard copy and found this article from theChronicle of Higher Education last fall. It details the friction caused at Cal Poly by the library dean when he decided to discard huge amounts of hardcopy materials.
The argument over whether to chuck hard copy goes to the very core of our existential purpose. This article calls into question wholesale discarding of academic materials, even when they have an electronic doppelganger that is more easy to access. The interesting struggle between print and electronic continues to be an fascinate and entertain.