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Book SynopsisPrompted by Nicholson Baker's Double Fold, which indicted librarians for creating microfilm instead of saving newspapers and other printed artifacts in original format, this volume distills the essential issues from the proceedings of a conference held by notable scholars and librarians at the University of Maryland Libraries in March 2002.
Trade Review...provides fresh perspective and a welcome diversity of thinking....One hopes that Who Wants Yesterday's Papers? represents the beginning of renewed questioning of the deceptively complex issues surrounding how we select and preserve for tomorrow the record of human experience, creativity, and discovery. * Information & Culture, Vol. 42, No. 2 (2007) *
...a very interesting and organized contemplation on the issues surrounding the preservation of printed materials. * Collection Building, Vol. 25 No. 3, 2006 *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Introduction Part 4 Part 1: The Race Against Time Chapter 5 1 Introduction Chapter 6 2 Books and the "Iniquitie or Wearing of Time: Chapter 7 3 Some Thoughts on the Race against Time and Inherent Vice: Library Preservation in the Late Twentieth Century Part 8 Part 2: Digital Demands vs. Paper Pleas Chapter 9 4 Introduction Chapter 10 5 How Theories Became Knowledge: Why Science Textbooks Should Be Saved Chapter 11 6 What Do Books Want? Chapter 12 7 Who Needs Yesterday's Papers When Today's Are on the Internet? Chapter 13 8 Above the Fold: The Value of Paper Newspapers Part 14 Part 3: Enduring Value Chapter 15 9 Introduction Chapter 16 10 Print Collections and Their Possible Futures Chapter 17 11 The Importance of Primary Records Chapter 18 12 Why We Collect: Curators, Collectors, and the Urge to Acquire Chapter 19 13 Conserving the Physical Object Chapter 20 14 There Are No Easy Answers: Analog vs. Digital for Preservation Reformatting Chapter 21 15 Uses of Primary Records from the Past Part 22 Part 4: The View from the Archives Chapter 23 16 Introduction Chapter 24 17 Assessing the (Non-Monetary) Value of Archival Records Part 25 Afterword: What Do We Mean by "Yesterday's Papers?" Part 26 Selected Bibliography Part 27 Index Part 28 About the Editors and Contributors
