Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Double Fold PDF full book. Access full book title Double Fold by Nicholson Baker. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Nicholson Baker Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1400033047 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 401
Book Description
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: Nicholson Baker Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1400033047 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 401
Book Description
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: United States. Superintendent of Documents Publisher: ISBN: Category : Government publications Languages : en Pages : 980
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Author: Nicholson Baker
Author: Nicholson Baker![The Mining Record [microform] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/Bu5bpYkfq68C?fife=w80-h100)
Author: 
Author: 
Author: 
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Author: ![The Colonial Furniture of New England [microform] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/3NdCAQAAMAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Irving Whitall Lyon
Author: University Microfilms International![People and Places Here and There [microform] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/-MYXAAAAIAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick![Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review [microform] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/4AAYAAAAYAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay