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Double Fold
Nicholson Baker
其他書名
Libraries and the Assault on Paper
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2002-08-13
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Administration & Management
Political Science / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
ISBN
1400033047
9781400033041
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k8LIgJBnKY8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.