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lastmod: 2026-06-24

tags:
- "oia"
title: Request a full list titles and authors of the 500 000 books the library is proposing to destroy
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A request to the National Library enquiring about the [half a million books](https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/06/12/national-library-to-dispose-of-500000-books-from-overseas-collection/) that were being disposed of from the foreign books collection. Instead of a nice format like a CSV, instead the requester was given a few hundred megabytes worth of PDFs where each book title was a single line.