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Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper / Nicholson Baker.
LIBRA - Special Z695.655 .B35 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Nicholson
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Libraries--United States--Special collections--Newspapers.
- Libraries.
- Newspaper and periodical libraries--United States.
- Newspaper and periodical libraries.
- Newspapers--Conservation and restoration.
- Newspapers.
- Paper--Preservation--United States.
- Paper.
- Libraries--Special collections.
- Paper--Preservation.
- United States.
- Libraries--United States--special collections.
- Newspapers and periodical libraries.
- Paper preservation.
- Local Subjects:
- Libraries--United States--special collections.
- Newspapers and periodical libraries.
- Paper preservation.
- Genre:
- Newspapers.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 370 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- Describes how libraries across the United States have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and brittle books to replace them with microfilmed copies, exploring the hidden reasons for such policies.
- Contents:
- Overseas disposal
- Original keepsakes
- Destroying to preserve
- It can be brutal
- The Ace comb effect
- Virgin mummies
- Already worthless
- A chance to begin again
- Dingy, dreary, dog-eared, and dead
- The preservation microfilming office
- Thugs and pansies
- Really wicked stuff
- Getting the champagne out of the bottle
- Bursting at the seams
- The road to Avernus
- It's not working out
- Double fold
- A new test
- Great magnitude
- Special offer
- 3.3 million books, 358 million dollars
- Six thousand bodies a day
- Burning up
- Going, going, gone
- Absolute nonsense
- Drumbeat
- Unparalleled crisis
- Microfix
- Slash and burn
- A swifter conflagration
- Crunch
- A figure we did not collect
- Leaf masters
- Turn the pages once
- Suibtermanean convumision
- Honest disagreement
- We just kind of keep track
- In good faith.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-353) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375726217
- 9780375726217
- OCLC:
- 49537458
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