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Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper /

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Since the 1950s, our country's libraries have followed a policy of "destroying to preserve." They have methodically dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers, cut up hundreds of thousands of so-called brittle books and replaced them with microfilmed copies, copies that...

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Main Author:	Baker, Nicholson
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage Books, [2002]
Subjects:	Libraries > United States > Special collections > Newspapers. Newspaper and periodical libraries > United States. Newspapers > Conservation and restoration. Paper > Preservation > United States.

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