[0-375-50444-3] 2001, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. xii, 370pp. 8vo. An intellectually and historically important work about the practice of American libraries to 'destroy to preserve' and dismantle their collections. Fine / fine copy. Jacket in loose, protective mylar sleeve.

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Double Fold; Libraries and the Assault on Paper

Publisher

Random House, New York

ISBN 10

0375504443

ISBN 13

9780375504440

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Since the 1950s, our country’s greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject of this passionately argued book, in which Nicholson Barker pleads the case for saving our recorded heritage in its original form while telling the story of how and why our greatest research libraries betrayed the public trust by auctioning off or pulping irreplaceable collections. The players include the Library of Congress, the CIA, NASA, microfilm lobbyists, newspaper dealers, and a colorful array of librarians and digital futurists, as well as Baker himself — who eventually discovers that the only way to save one important newspaper is to buy it. Double Fold is an intense, brilliantly worded narrative that is sure to provoke discussion and controversy.

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Nicholson Baker has published five novels, including Vox, The Vermata and The Everlasting Story of Nory, and two works of nonfiction, the most recent of which is The Size of Thoughts. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children.

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