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Many thanks to Cronaca for spreading the word!http://www.cronaca.com/archives/004613.htmlCultural suicide at KarlsruheThis story has remained essentially invisible outside Germany, and I'm not sure why. It's been headline news there: a proposed selloff of 3500 of the 4200 medieval manuscripts -- many of them of the highest importance -- in the Badische Landesbibliothek of Karlsruhe. Worse, the money wouldn't even go to the library, or even to any public entity [...]BTW: The Online petition is closed.Here is a list of the relevant entries of  ARCHIVALIA's "English Corner" on the Karlsruhe case.http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2743873http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2739268http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2731521http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2720115