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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
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.