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9780810851191

Who Wants Yesterday's Papers? Essays on the Research Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age

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  • ISBN13:

    9780810851191

  • ISBN10:

    0810851199

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-12-23
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $94.00

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Bruce W. Dearstyne
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Yvonne Carignan
Part 1 The Race against Time
Introduction
3(2)
Susan Klier Koutsky
Books and the ``Iniquitie or Wearing of Time''
5(18)
Eric N. Lindquist
Some Thoughts on the Race against Time and Inherent Vice: Library Preservation in the Late Twentieth Century
23(16)
Mark Roosa
Part 2 Digital Demands vs. Paper Pleas
Introduction
39(6)
Martha Nell Smith
How Theories Became Knowledge: Why Science Textbooks Should Be Saved
45(14)
Stephen G. Brush
What Do Books Want?
59(6)
Neil Fraistat
Who Needs Yesterday's Papers When Today's Are on the Internet?
65(10)
Jordan Goodman
Kara M. McClurken
Above the Fold: The Value of Paper Newspapers
75(18)
John E. Newhagen
Part 3 Enduring Value
Introduction
93(6)
Abby Smith
Print Collections and Their Possible Futures
99(16)
Walter Cybulski
The Importance of Primary Records
115(8)
Phyllis Franklin
Why We Collect: Curators, Collectors, and the Urge to Acquire
123(6)
Douglas P. McElrath
Conserving the Physical Object
129(12)
Nancy Carlson Schrock
There Are No Easy Answers: Analog vs. Digital for Preservation Reformatting
141(14)
Steven Puglia
Kara M. McClurken
Uses of Primary Records from the Past
155(10)
G. Thomas Tanselle
Part 4 The View from the Archives
Introduction
165(2)
Yvonne Carignan
Assessing the (Non-Monetary) Value of Archival Records
167(12)
Thomas James Connors
Afterword: What Do We Mean by ``Yesterday's Papers?'' 179(8)
Richard J. Cox
Selected Bibliography 187(4)
Index 191(6)
About the Editors and Contributors 197

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