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Harvard Law Library sacrifices trove of legal volumes to digitize them

Please don't editorialise submission titles [1]. The title of the NYT article is "Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age".

[1] FWIW, I agree with the sentiment of loss implied by "sacrifices". On a worse day than this I might even think of these books as being mutilated.

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Eh, its an overly sentimental way to look at things. Yeah on the surface it sounds like these books are being damaged, but in reality they're being given new life. Before you'd have to be physically present at Harvard to access these tomes, but after digitation they'll be available and searchable by anyone over the world. People might actually stumble upon the information via a related search instead of having to know of the existence of the specific document. This also increases their shelf life dramatically because they'll be spread digitally instead of being at the mercy of one fire or flood.

The URL says "Harvard Law Library sacrifices a trove for the sake of a free database", and the title of the print article is "Sacrificing a Legal Trove for the Digital Age", so perhaps the submitter did not editorialize the submission title. Maybe the online title has just changed since submission.

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