Is changing real libraries to online catalogs , worth

portal: Libraries and the Academy 2.1 (2002) 99-123 In November 2000, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) commissioned a white paper to initiate discussion of how and why libraries are changing. Eight academic library directors met with representatives from the DLF and CLIR in March 2001 to discuss the issues.

Yes

Explanation: hypothetically speaking if you wanted to store document that can last forever then yes. But without libraries a lot of old document that is currently preserved over the centuries will be lost or destroyed over time and those can catch quite a value.

formulating the initial idea for the policy

answer is c.