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        1. If Copac is to be believed, there are 7 RLUK libraries which hold the 1991 edition of David Irving's Hitler's War copac.jisc.ac.uk/search?&author=david+irving&title=hitler%27s+war
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        Interestingly, for current discussions, Manchester Uni Library doesn't have the Holocaust-denying 1991 edition; only the 1977 edition.
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      Anyway, as I've said medium.com/@SimonXIX/the-hidden-politics-of-collection-management-b5f96760a320#.o93ojpq4z, IMO the issue isn't inclusion vs. exclusion: it's how texts are /represented/ in collections.
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    The whole debate around controversial books in libraries is framed in broad terms of either having the book or removing it.
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      But there are other solutions. A. Choose not to acquire revisionist histories in the first place. B. Classify and catalogue books accurately
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        Cataloguing and classification in libraries is so static. But the world changes. Context changes. And then classifications need to change.
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