Who Wants Yesterday's Papers?

Essays on the Research Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age
Herausgeber: Carignan, Yvonne; McClurken, Kara M; Lindquist, Eric N; Koutsky, Susan Klier; Dumerer, Danielle

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
• Seitenzahl: 215
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780810851191
• ISBN-10: 0810851199
• Artikelnr.: 21746352

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Carignan is Preservation Department Head, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park. Danielle DuMerer is an archivist/librarian in Chicago, Ill. Susan Klier Koutsky is a librarian in the Preservation Department, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park. Eric N. Lindquist is a librarian at McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park. Kara M. McClurken is archivist of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, Northhampton, Mass. Douglas P. McElrath is curator, Marylandia and Rare Books, Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Introduction Part 4 Part 1:
The Race Against Time Chapter 5 1 Introduction Chapter 6 2 Books and the
"Iniquitie or Wearing of Time: Chapter 7 3 Some Thoughts on the Race
against Time and Inherent Vice: Library Preservation in the Late Twentieth
Century Part 8 Part 2: Digital Demands vs. Paper Pleas Chapter 9 4
Introduction Chapter 10 5 How Theories Became Knowledge: Why Science
Textbooks Should Be Saved Chapter 11 6 What Do Books Want? Chapter 12 7 Who
Needs Yesterday's Papers When Today's Are on the Internet? Chapter 13 8
Above the Fold: The Value of Paper Newspapers Part 14 Part 3: Enduring
Value Chapter 15 9 Introduction Chapter 16 10 Print Collections and Their
Possible Futures Chapter 17 11 The Importance of Primary Records Chapter 18
12 Why We Collect: Curators, Collectors, and the Urge to Acquire Chapter 19
13 Conserving the Physical Object Chapter 20 14 There Are No Easy Answers:
Analog vs. Digital for Preservation Reformatting Chapter 21 15 Uses of
Primary Records from the Past Part 22 Part 4: The View from the Archives
Chapter 23 16 Introduction Chapter 24 17 Assessing the (Non-Monetary) Value
of Archival Records Part 25 Afterword: What Do We Mean by "Yesterday's
Papers?" Part 26 Selected Bibliography Part 27 Index Part 28 About the
Editors and Contributors