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Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper / Nicholson Baker.
Van Pelt Library Z695.655 .B35 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Nicholson
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Libraries--United States--Special collections--Newspapers.
- Libraries.
- Paper--Preservation.
- Newspaper and periodical libraries.
- United States.
- Newspaper and periodical libraries--United States.
- Newspapers--Conservation and restoration.
- Newspapers.
- Paper--Preservation--United States.
- Paper.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 370 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, 2001.
- Summary:
- A bestselling novelist presents an expos of 20th century library policies that have resulted in the destruction of large parts of the printed past, explaining that the country's greatest libraries have dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and books and replaced them with microfilmed copies. color photo insert.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-353) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0375504443
- OCLC:
- 44732234
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