Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on PaperKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2002 M08 13 - 384 páginas The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system. |
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Destroying to Preserve | |
It Can Be Brutal | |
The Ace Comb Effect | |
Virgin Mummies | |
Already Worthless | |
Six Thousand Bodies a | |
Burning | |
Going Going Gone | |
Absolute Nonsense | |
Drumbeat | |
CHAPTER Unparalleled Crisis CHAPTER 28 Microfix | |
Slash and Burn | |
A Swifter Conflagration | |
CHAPTER 8A Chance to Begin Again CHAPTER 9 Dingy Dreary Dogeared 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 | |
Its Not Working | |
Double Fold | |
A New Test | |
Great Magnitude | |
Special Offer | |
3 Million Books 358 Million Dollars | |
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 | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
References | |
About the Author | |
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