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Author:

Baker, Nicholson.

Title:

Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper / Nicholson Baker.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

xii, 370 p., [4] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Libraries--United States--Newspapers.--Newspapers.
Newspaper and periodical libraries--United States.
Newspapers--Conservation and restoration.
Paper--Preservation--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index.

Contents:

Overseas disposal -- Original keepsakes -- Destroying to preserve -- It can be brutal -- The Ace comb effect -- Virgin mummies -- Already worthless -- A chance to begin again -- Dingy, dreary, dog-eared, and dead -- The preservation microfilming office -- Thugs and pansies -- Really wicked stuff -- Getting the champagne out of the bottle -- Bursting at the seams -- The road to Avernus -- It's not working out -- Double fold -- A new test -- Great magnitude -- Special offer -- 3.3 million books, 358 million dollars -- Six thousand bodies a day -- Burning up -- Going, going, gone --Absolute nonsense -- Drumbeat -- Unparalleled crisis -- Microfix -- Slash and burn -- A swifter conflagration -- Crunch -- A figure we did not collect -- Leaf masters -- Turn the pages once -- Suibtermanean convumision -- Honest disagreement -- We just kind of keep track -- In good faith.

ISBN:

9780375504440 (alk. paper)
0375504443 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44732234

LCCN:

00059171

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

XCPB737 -- Lied Public Library-Essex (Essex)

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)