Preservation Microfilming

Preservation Microfilming
Author: Association of Research Libraries
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838906538

This guide presents information on planning and managing microfilming projects, incorporating co-operative programmes, service bureaux and the impact of automation for library staff with deteriorating collections.

Double Fold

Double Fold
Author: Nicholson Baker
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2002-08-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1400033047

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. With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system.

The Hibernian Chronicle

The Hibernian Chronicle
Author: Multiple Contributors
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 830
Release: 2018-04-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385418130

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ]+++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Cambridge University Library P002804 Publisher's name appears at head of title on some issues. Imprint from colophon; imprint lacks year of publication. Number and city of publication from head of title. Early issues have running title with year of publication. Later issues have cut in center of title. Printed in three columns, later in four; occasional advertisements illustrated with small cuts. Issues for 26 Mar.-1 Nov. 1770 contain essays: "The Modern monitor", by H. Sheares and others. These were reprinted in 1771 as: The modern monitor: or Flynn's Speculations. Includes political news from both Houses of Parliament; reprinted items from the London Gazette; foreign and London news notes, Dublin and Cork news, prices and advertisements for local products, real estate, new books, personal notices. Description based on: Vol. IV. no. 4. (Monday, January 13, 1772.); title from caption. Cork [Ireland]: printed by William Flyn, at the sign of Shakespear, near the Exchange. v.: ill.; 29-40 cm. (4°; 2°)