Two million to three million of the five million volumes in the stacks including the more specialized material many of us depend on, and referred to by the library as the "least used" books would be moved to Siberia. (Excuse me, to New Jersey, where the offsite storage is located.) Books would be returned in an optimistically estimated but unreliable 24 hours, by truck, on the traffic-jammed New Jersey Turnpike.
WSJ: New York Public Library | Undertaking Its Destruction | By Ada Louise Huxtable