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 subj
The assault on paper
โ Scribed by Peter Horsman; Eric Ketelaar; Theo Thomassen
- Book ID
- 105573968
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 29 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1389-0166
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our countryโs libraries โ including the Library of Congress โ have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficul
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