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Who Wants Yesterdays Papers?
Brush, Stephen G.; Connors, Thomas James; Cox, Richard J.; Cybulski, Walter; Dearstyne, Bruce W.. Ed(S): Carignan, Yvonne; Dumerer, Danielle; Koutsky
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Description for Who Wants Yesterdays Papers?
Paperback. Prompted 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. Editor(s): Carignan, Yvonne; DuMerer, Danielle; Koutsky, Susan Klier; Lindquist, Eric N.; McClurken, Kara M. Num Pages: 215 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 299.
Should librarians try to save everything that is published? If so, in what formats? How can the records of human experience be best preserved in a time of limited resources? These are just a few of the controversial questions addressed in this volume, which 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. The conference organizers, editors of this book, were originally prompted by Nicholson Baker's Double Fold, which indicted librarians for creating microfilm instead of saving newspapers and other printed artifacts in original ... Read more
Should librarians try to save everything that is published? If so, in what formats? How can the records of human experience be best preserved in a time of limited resources? These are just a few of the controversial questions addressed in this volume, which 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. The conference organizers, editors of this book, were originally prompted by Nicholson Baker's Double Fold, which indicted librarians for creating microfilm instead of saving newspapers and other printed artifacts in original ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810851191
SKU
V9780810851191
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About Brush, Stephen G.; Connors, Thomas James; Cox, Richard J.; Cybulski, Walter; Dearstyne, Bruce W.. Ed(S): Carignan, Yvonne; Dumerer, Danielle; Koutsky
Yvonne Carignan is Preservation Department Head, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park. Danielle DuMerer is an archivist/librarian in Chicago, Ill. Susan Klier Koutsky is a librarian in the Preservation Department, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park. Eric N. Lindquist is a librarian at McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park. Kara M. McClurken is archivist of ... Read more
Reviews for Who Wants Yesterdays Papers?
...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 ... Read more
Information & Culture, Vol. 42, No. 2 (2007)
...a very interesting and organized contemplation on the ... Read more