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Who wants yesterday's papers? : essays on the research value of printed materials in the digital age
Title
Who wants yesterday's papers? : essays on the research value of printed materials in the digital age / edited by Yvonne Carignan ... [et al.].
ISBN
0810851199 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Physical Description
xv, 201 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-189) and index.
Contents
The race against time : introduction / Susan Klier Koutsky
Books and the "iniquitie or wearing of time" / Eric N. Lindquist
Some thoughts on the race against time and inherent vice : library preservation in the late twentieth century / Mark Roosa
Digital demands vs. paper pleas : introduction / Martha Nell Smith
How theories became knowledge : why science textbooks should be saved / Stephen G. Brush
What do books want? / Neil Fraistat
Who needs yesterday's papers when today's are on the Internet? / Jordan Goodman and Kara M. McClurken
Above the fold : the value of paper newspapers / John E. Newhagen
Enduring value : introduction / Abby Smith
Print collections and the possible futures / Walter Cybulski
The importance of primary records / Phyllis Franklin
Why we collect : curators, collectors, and the urge to acquire / Douglas P. McElrath
Conserving the physical object / Nancy Carlson Schrock
There are no easy answers : analog vs. digital for preservation reformatting / Steven Puglia and Kara M. McClurken
Uses of primary records from the past / G. Thomas Tanselle
The view from the archives : introduction / Yvonne Carignan
Assessing the (non-monetary) value of archival records / Thomas James Connors
Afterword : what do we mean by "yesterday's papers?" / Richard J. Cox.
Subjects
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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). College of Information Studies.
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries.
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