Double Fold
Libraries and the Assault on Paper

Publisher:  Random House, USA
Year Published:  2001
Pages:  370pp   Price:  $25.95   Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX6947

Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries' "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of irreplacable bound originals including 19th-century illustrated dailies. He chronicles the attempts to find ways of preserving books from both the ravages of time and the librairies' lack of shelf space. He also explains how librairies use the spectre of disintegrating books as part of their fundraising stategy. Baker offers aternative solutions to these problems. His ultimate and pesuasive plea is for librairies to stop "executing" the originals.

Subject Headings

• Book Preservation
• Books
• Destruction of Libraries and Archives
• Digital Archiving
• Digital Libraries
• Heritage Conservation
• Libraries
• Libraries/Archives
• Microfilming/Standards
• Newspaper Databases
• Newspapers
• Paper Conservation
• Preservation
• Scanning Data
• Storage