Vandals in the Stacks? A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries
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| Year of Publication |
2002
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Author:
Richard J. Cox |
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| Number of Pages |
219 pp.
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| Publisher |
Greenwood Press
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| City |
Westport, CT
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| ISBN |
9780313323447
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| Annotation |
Response to critique by well-known author Baker in the book Double Fold, that libraries and archives were shirking their responsibilities by discarding materials.
Contents:
Life imitates art?
The big picture and Baker's world
Why can't the paper keepers keep all the paper?
Newspaper warehouses
Wrong priorities
The real thing
Burning libraries, discards, card catalogs, Nicholson Baker, and library history
Persistent images
Mundane matters
Mom, I harass monks (too)
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