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Many large research libraries now have off-site warehouses.  The books can be retrieved from there, but it can sometimes take several days for that, like ILL.  

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by poemless on Wed Jun 17th, 2009 at 11:50:10 AM EST
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Yes, I know. Trinity here has had off-site "stacks" for more than twenty years. Retrieval was generally overnight. I don't see the problem.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Jun 17th, 2009 at 11:58:27 AM EST
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