Who wants yesterday's papers? : essays on the research value of printed materials in the digital age /

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Imprint:	Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Description:	xv, 201 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Library materials -- Selection for preservation -- Congresses. Archival materials -- Selection for preservation -- Congresses. Library materials -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses. Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses. Library materials -- Digitization -- Congresses. Archival materials -- Digitization -- Congresses. History -- Sources -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses. Newspapers -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses. Libraries and scholars -- Congresses. Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration. Archival materials -- Digitization. Archival materials -- Selection for preservation. History. Libraries and scholars. Library materials -- Conservation and restoration. Library materials -- Digitization. Library materials -- Selection for preservation. Newspapers -- Conservation and restoration.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5574617

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Other authors / contributors:	Carignan, Yvonne, 1952- University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). College of Information Studies. University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries.
ISBN:	0810851199 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Papers originally presented at a symposium organized by the University of Maryland College of Information Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries in March 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-189) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface / Bruce W. Dearstyne
Introduction / Yvonne Carignan
Pt. 1. The race against time
1. Introduction / Susan Klier Koutsky
2. Books and the "iniquitie or wearing of time" / Eric N. Lindquist
3. Some thoughts on the race against time and inherent vice : library preservation in the late twentieth century / Mark Roosa
Pt. 2. Digital demands vs. paper pleas
4. Introduction / Martha Nell Smith
5. How theories became knowledge : why science textbooks should be saved / Stephen G. Brush
6. What do books want? / Neil Fraistat
7. Who needs yesterday's papers when today's are on the Internet? / Jordan Goodman and Kara M. McClurken
8. Above the fold : the value of paper newspapers / John E. Newhagen
Pt. 3. Enduring value
9. Introduction / Abby Smith
10. Print collections and their possible futures / Walter Cybulski
11. The importance of primary records / Phyllis Franklin
12. Why we collect : curators, collectors, and the urge to acquire / Douglas P. McElrath
13. Conserving the physical object / Nancy Carlson Schrock
14. There are no easy answers : analog vs. digital for preservation reformatting / Steven Puglia and Kara M. McClurken
15. Uses of primary records from the past / G. Thomas Tanselle
Pt. 4. The view from the archives
16. Introduction / Yvonne Carignan
17. Assessing the (non-monetary) value of archival records / Thomas James Connors
Afterword : what do we mean by "yesterday's papers?" / Richard J. Cox.

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