All writers of course love the printed word, but few are those willing to start foundations in order to preserve it.
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2014. (p. 54). Other targets of Baker's ire include the highly regarded Brittle Books Program, the United States Newspaper Program, the mass deacidification policy practiced by the Library of Congress, and the 1987 film Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record.
(p. 67). 1-Click ordering is not available for this item. Baker displays a particular distaste for library officials who advanced the notion that thousands upon thousands of books and newspapers were on the verge of disintegrating right before our eyes: "...librarians have lied shamelessly about the extent of paper's fragility, and they continue to lie about it" (p. 41). Baker makes four recommendations in Double Fold's epilogue: that libraries should be required to publish lists of discarded holdings on their websites, that the Library of Congress should fund a building that will serve as a storage repository for publications and documents not housed on-site, that some U.S. libraries should be designated with saving newspapers in bound form, and that both the U.S. Mass audiences and corporate sponsorship have become their primary engines of growth and survival. (p. 157). (For instance he complains in one case that a chemical used in a deacidification experiment was also used in bombs. One can only gasp in outraged disbelief as he describes the men and women who, while supposedly serving as responsible custodians of our history, have chosen instead to decimate it. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Baker laments the loss of thousands of volumes of significant 19th- and 20th-century newspapers: the Brooklyn Eagle, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York World, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, The New York Times, and many others. It's as if the National Park Service felled vast wild tracts of pointed firs and replaced them with plastic Christmas trees." Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. (In the late 1960s, preservation founding father William Barrowwas fond of using a machine-run fold tester to back up his c… Why this concern for the historical record? Nicholson Baker has published five novels–. The action is then repeated until the paper breaks or is about to break. Newspaper and the Brittle Books Programs should be abolished, unless they can promise that all conservation procedures will be non-destructive and that originals will be saved. His other problems with microfilm include cost ("Compared to storing the originals in some big building, microfilming is wildly expensive" p. 26), the poor quality of some of the images ("edge-blurred, dark, gappy, with text cut off of some pages, faded to the point of illegibility on others" p. 14), and the sheer frustration of dealing with the technology ("microfilm is a brain-poaching, gorge-lifting trial to browse" p. 39). No Kindle device required. Baker's issue with microfilming is not so much with the process in and of itself ("there is nothing intrinsically wrong with microfilming...(it) can be extremely useful" p. 25) -- but with the disbinding (sometimes known as "guillotining") and discarding that often went hand-in-hand with the procedure. Throughout his book, Baker hammers away at the Orwellian notion that we must destroy books and newspapers in order, supposedly, to save them. Later that year, Baker got another chance to respond to librarians when he was invited to speak at the annual American Library Association conference in San Francisco. They were more concerned with ways to (in the words of one) "extract profit and usefulness from" old books while at the same time "prevent [them] from clogging the channels of the present." (p. 260), "The ability to summon words from distant, normally unreachable sources, which can be a fine thing for scholarship, is being linked to the compulsory removal of local physical access, which is a terrible thing for scholarship."
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You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Over the course of his library investigations, Baker evolved from dispassionate reporter to vocal advocate for preservation of newspapers, culminating in his establishment of his own corporation to buy and preserve libraries' discarded newspaper folios. As part of the gift agreement between the American Newspaper Repository and Duke, the collection will be kept together in perpetuity, and no disbinding or experimental deacidification will be allowed. Why have both the scholarly and popular press recently taken this sudden interest in libraries? Download one of the Free Kindle apps to start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer. (answer: a fairly resounding "no"). In the interview Baker denies charges of "librarian bashing" and points out that some reviewers of Double Fold had misrepresented his opinions. Double Fold won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 2001, and received positive reviews from The New York Times, Salon.com, and the New York Review of Books. © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, and over one million other books are available for.
In the preface, Baker says, "This isn't an impartial piece of reporting", (preface p. x) and The New York Times characterized the book as a "blistering and thoroughly idiosyncratic attack".[1]. © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, and over one million other books are available for, A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, Foreword by David C Greetham. As a librarian I have mixed feelings towards his central argument. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. She writes that "Despite limited budgets, the uncertainties of new technology, and other compelling institutional priorities, librarians have used the best knowledge and materials available at any given time to develop a broad array of preservation strategies. Both the article and the book provide harsh criticisms of Baker's research and findings. (p. 104), "We have...lost intellectual content as a direct result of our massive effort to preserve it." There's a lot of detail here, really far more than necessary and scattered too widely across the many chapters. Double Fold is the narrative of a heroic struggle: Picture Baker as "Offisa Pup" defending "Krazy Kat," of the printed word, against the villainous "Ignatz Mouse" of the library establishment all in glorious, vivid color on brittle (but unbowed) newsprint. Fast, FREE delivery, video streaming, music, and much more. Baker describes the double fold test as "...utter horseshit and craziness. These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. Previous page of related Sponsored Products. Baker uncovered an Orwellian universe in our midst in which preservation equals destruction, and millions of tax dollars have funded and continue to fund the destruction of irreplaceable books, newspapers and other print media. The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age.
"I wanted to change the way librarians think about some of these collections and the nature of keeping things. Double Fold was viewed by many as a scathing indictment of librarians and libraries everywhere. "As a very rough, lowball guess, thirty-nine million dollars' worth of originals left our nation's libraries, thanks to federal largesse. But for fifty years our country's libraries-including the Library of Congress-have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. Librarians were quick to defend themselves and their profession, in journal articles and elsewhere, against Baker's accusations. The action is then repeated until the paper breaks or is about to break. Download one of the Free Kindle apps to start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer. I sympathise with his assessment of microfilm as a poor (and expensive) substitute for paper, however, his alternative of keeping everything in its original form, never weeding collections or getting rid of books is seriously impractical for the majority of libraries. Shop the top 25 most popular 1 at the best prices! Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. ", In an editorial titled "Baker's Book Is Half-Baked," published in the May 15, 2001 issue of Library Journal, Francine Fialkoff starts by stating "Nicholson Baker doesn't get it" and goes on to say that Baker ignores the fact that libraries serve people, not products: "However admirable his effort to preserve newspapers and books and to ensure that original copies of every publication be retained, he doesn't understand -- and perhaps never will -- that the purpose of libraries is access. Several librarians invented wacky methods for testing paper, including the double fold test, from which the book gets it's title. (on-sale Apr. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a non-fiction book by Nicholson Baker that was published in April 2001. Baker's work is certainly an informative and well-researched piece of work.
The Way To Lasting Success: Unleash Your Limitless Potential, Elevate Goal Setting,... “Got me, as he intended, hopping mad. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2015. He brings to light the tension between preservation and access: which should be the priority? "[6] Manoff notes that "discarding books and newspapers, however serious a problem, is not itself the destruction of history" but also acknowledges that the call for libraries to take on a stronger role in preserving the historical record, and not only focus on technological trends, is a valid demand. Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2014. 10) Forecast: The genesis of this book, an article in the New Yorker, generated quite a fuss, and this book is bound to receive attention in the print media. It is not the kind of fierce attack that it is being portrayed to be by the people who want to defuse it. Baker claims these goals need not conflict: "Why can't we have the benefits of the new and extravagantly expensive digital copy and keep the convenience and beauty and historical testimony of the original books resting on the shelves, where they've always been, thanks to the sweat and equity of our prescient predecessors?" Baker sides with those who believe that the medium is just as important as the message, and he takes library managers to task for exaggerating the destruction wrought by acid paper in their rush to embrace microforms' putative space-saving and reproduction advantages. The Library Journal gave the book a good review, recommending it for libraries everywhere. Double Fold's chapter titles include "Destroying to Preserve," "It Can Be Brutal," "Dingy, Dreary, Dog-Eared and Dead," "Thugs and Pansies," "3.3 Million Books, 358 Million Dollars" and "Absolute Nonsense."
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