The National Repository Library is an agency under the Finnish
Ministry of Education and Culture The Ministry of Education and Culture is a Cabinet position in the governments of several nations. In some nations the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture are separate departments; in others, the Ministry of Education and Culture als ...
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.
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Libraries in Finland
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