The National Library in Wellington, New Zealand, plans to get rid of more than 600,000 “foreign books” from its collection, saying it needs to make room for more works in its New Zealand, Māori, and Pacific collection, of which it adds 80,000–90,000 titles each year. The library’s Director of Content Rachel Eason says the cost of maintaining the older overseas titles is massive, but scholars and researchers fear that once the books—many of which are out of print—leave the national collection, they will be lost and may end up destroyed.