Book Description
This guide presents information on planning and managing microfilming projects, incorporating co-operative programmes, service bureaux and the impact of automation for library staff with deteriorating collections.
Author : Association of Research Libraries
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838906538
This guide presents information on planning and managing microfilming projects, incorporating co-operative programmes, service bureaux and the impact of automation for library staff with deteriorating collections.
Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1400033047
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.
Author : Library of Congress. Union Catalog Division
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Newspapers
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Author : Association of Research Libraries
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Bibliography
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Railroads
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Page : 2126 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 1909
Category :
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Author : Jehangeer Nowrojee
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 1841
Category : East Indians
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Author : Sylvester Judd
Publisher :
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Amherst (Mass.)
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Author : Library of Congress. Catalog Publication Division
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 1982
Category : American newspapers
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Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Monterey County (Calif.)
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