What is a Library without Books?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-10/juers-save-the-mitchell-library/5249574

I found this article on the ABC online news site; it is a troubling picture of what is likely to come. For those of you not acquainted with Sydney, Australia, the Mitchell Library is part of the State Library of NSW, and it contains a vast amount of reference material relating to Australian history and culture.