Who Wants Yesterday's Papers? Essays on the

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.

Preface

v

Bruce W. Dearstyne

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xi

Yvonne Carignan

Part 1 The Race against Time

Introduction

3

(2)

Susan Klier Koutsky

Books and the ``Iniquitie or Wearing of Time''

5

(18)

Eric N. Lindquist

Some Thoughts on the Race against Time and Inherent Vice: Library Preservation in the Late Twentieth Century

23

(16)

Mark Roosa

Part 2 Digital Demands vs. Paper Pleas

Introduction

39

(6)

Martha Nell Smith

How Theories Became Knowledge: Why Science Textbooks Should Be Saved

45

(14)

Stephen G. Brush

What Do Books Want?

59

(6)

Neil Fraistat

Who Needs Yesterday's Papers When Today's Are on the Internet?

65

(10)

Jordan Goodman

Kara M. McClurken

Above the Fold: The Value of Paper Newspapers

75

(18)

John E. Newhagen

Part 3 Enduring Value

Introduction

93

(6)

Abby Smith

Print Collections and Their Possible Futures

99

(16)

Walter Cybulski

The Importance of Primary Records

115

(8)

Phyllis Franklin

Why We Collect: Curators, Collectors, and the Urge to Acquire

123

(6)

Douglas P. McElrath

Conserving the Physical Object

129

(12)

Nancy Carlson Schrock

There Are No Easy Answers: Analog vs. Digital for Preservation Reformatting

141

(14)

Steven Puglia

Kara M. McClurken

Uses of Primary Records from the Past

155

(10)

G. Thomas Tanselle

Part 4 The View from the Archives

Introduction

165

(2)

Yvonne Carignan

Assessing the (Non-Monetary) Value of Archival Records

167

(12)

Thomas James Connors

Afterword: What Do We Mean by ``Yesterday's Papers?''

179

(8)

Richard J. Cox

Selected Bibliography

187

(4)

Index

191

(6)

About the Editors and Contributors

197

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Who Wants Yesterday's Papers? Essays on the Research Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age

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