The National Repository Library is an agency under the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture that collects lesser-used items donated by other libraries.1 Such centralized collection saves storage costs and avoids the items being destroyed as the libraries can no longer justify keeping them in their collections.
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National Repository Library
The National Repository Library is an agency under the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture that collects lesser-used items donated by other libraries. Such centralized collection saves storage costs and avoids the items being destroyed as the libraries can no longer justify keeping them in their collections.