Research Catalog

Title

Who wants yesterday's papers? : essays on the research value of printed materials in the digital age / edited by Yvonne Carignan ... [et al.].

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Carignan, Yvonne, 1952-
• University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). College of Information Studies.
• University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries.

Description

xv, 201 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• History > Congresses. > Conservation and restoration
• 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
• Newspapers > Conservation and restoration > Congresses
• Libraries and scholars > Congresses

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-189) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0810851199 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004018106^^

OCLC

• 56192216
• SCSB-11058640

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library