Double fold

Double fold: libraries and the assault on paper

by Baker, Nicholson

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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.

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  • Full title :Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper / Nicholson Baker.

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2001

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Vintage Books
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2001

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (384 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illsutrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781400033041, 1400033047
  • oclc:on1192487798
  • LC Classification:Z695.655
  • Dewey Decimal:025.2/832

Table of 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.

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Subjects

Libraries -- Special collections Libraries -- Special collections -- Uni… Newspaper and periodical libraries Newspaper and periodical libraries -- U… Newspapers Newspapers -- Conservation and restorat… Paper -- Preservation Paper -- Preservation -- United States United States

Writers

Baker, Nicholson

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