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My understanding is that there are about 1/4 as many horses in the US
now as there were in the year 1900, still going strong but as Sandy
Mason says for the most part used for the purposes of pleasure rather
than work.
My Malkin lecture was on the future of rare book libraries, not
on the future of rare books; of course there are going to continue to
be rare books both old and new in our future. But I do think that fewer
of them are going to be in institutional settings of the sort many of
us are most familiar with, a generation or so from now.
-Terry Belanger
Columbia University School of Library Service