Save America's Newspapers From Microfilm?(Brief Article)

From: Micrographics and Hybrid Imaging Systems Newsletter | Date: August 1, 2000 | Copyright information

A New Yorker writer argues microfilming is intimately linked with their destruction and more.

Did early and present library administrators tacitly enter into a virtual conspiracy with microfilm vendors to do away with invaluable originals of newspapers chronicling America's past? That's an impression you might carry away after reading the July 24, 2000 issue of The New Yorker magazine.

It carried a 17-page, multi-thousand word essay by Nicholson Baker, founder of the American Newspaper Repository. In the article Baker attacks major world libraries ---notably the British ...

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