Petroski, Henry
Pew Charitable Trust
pH of paper
Philadelphia Daily Evening Register
Philadelphia Inquirer, The
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Philip Morris
photocopying, preservation
Pierce, John R.
Planning Research Corporation
Plotnik, Arthur
Ploughed Under; the Story of an Indian Chief
Poe, Edgar Allan
polyester film encapsulation
Poole, Frazer G.
Pope or Mussolini (Hearley)
Popeye
Portland Daily Journal
Portland Evening News
Pottsville Journal
Pound, Arthur
Power, Eugene
Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes and Bucks (Lesk)
Preparation of Detailed Specifications for a National System for the Preservation of Library Materials (Haas)
preservation, conservation vs.
preservation administrators (PAs)
Preservation Administrators Discussion Group (PADG)
preservation crisis, marketing of
Preservation Microfilming: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists (Gwinn)
Preservation Microfilming: Planning and Production
preservation photocopying
“Preservation Plan for Textual (Paper) Records for the National Archives of the United States”
Preservation Resources (MAPS; Mid-Atlantic Preservation Services)
“Preservation Selection Decisions” (Erway)
Price, Miles O.
Priestly, J.
primary records, Tanselle on
Prime, William Cowper
Princeton University
Prisoner’s Dilemma
Pritsker, Alan B.
“Problems of Microform in Libraries”
Procter, Ben
Project Aurora
Project Intrex
Project Open Book
“Promise of Microprint, The” (Metcalf et al.)
Protectoid
Ptolemy
Public Archives of Canada
Publishers Weekly
Puckette, Charles
Pulitzer, Joseph
Punch
Putnam, Herbert
Questions at Issue (Gosse)
Radical Indictment!, A (Adams)
Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
Defense Electronic Products division of
rag paper
making of
Rand Corporation
Random House
Raney, M. Llewellyn
rare books
Rau, Erik Peter
Readex Microprint
Reagan, Ronald
Réaumur, René de
Reavis, W. Elmo
Recordak Corporation
Reed-Scott, Jutta
Regis, Ed
Reid, Mrs. Ogden
Reilly, James M.
Religion and Chemistry (Cooke)
Rensenberger, Boyce
Republic Aviation
Research Libraries Group
Cooperative Preservation Microfilming Project of
Research Publications
Restaurator
Richard Bland College
Richard Hoe and Company; see also Hoe, Richard
Richards, Bill
Richmond Daily Dispatch
Richmond News Leader
Rickover, Hyman
Rider, Fremont
Ringle, Ken
Robbins, Louise S.
Robinson, James H., Jr.
Robinson, Lawrence S.
Robinson, Solon
Rockefeller Foundation
Rocketdyne
Rogers, Rutherford D.
Roggia, Sally Cruz
Rolls Series
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Ross, Thomas B.
Roth, Steven M.
Rouyer, Philippe
R. R. Bowker
Rubin, Jack
Rusek, John J.
Russell, Colin A.
Russell, Joyce R.
Russian Academy of Sciences Library
Ryland, Jane N.
Sadler, J. William
Sagraves, Barbara
St. Bonaventure University
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Saint Mary’s University
Saintsbury, George
Salerno Film Festival
Salmon, Stephen R.
Sanders, Terry
San Francisco Academy of Comic Art
San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Public Library
Sartor Resartus (Carlyle)
Sawyer, John Edward (Jack)
Schäffer, Jacob Christian
Scholar and the Future of the Research Library, The (Rider)
Scholarly Advisory Committees (SACs)
Scholarly Publishing
“School for Scanning”
Schubert, Irene
Scientific American
Scott, Robert Falcon
Scribner, Bourdon W.
Scribner’s
S. D. Warren Company
Seattle World’s Fair (1962)
Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress (1821)
See It Now
“semi-rare” books
Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air, The (Andrews)
Sever, Anne A. P.
Sever, James Warren
Shaffer, Norman J.
Shahani, Chandru J.
Shakespeare, William
Shapiro, Karl
She (Haggard)
“shovelware”
Shulman, Seth
Siegal, Nina
Silbey, Joel
“Silent Books of the Future, The: Initiatives to Save Yesterday’s Literature for Tomorrow” (Battin)
Silva, Lolita
Silver, Larry
Silverman, Randy
Simon and Schuster
Simon Fraser University Library
Singer, Mark
“slash and burn preservation”
Slow Fires
“Slow Fires at Harvard’s Libraries”
Smith, Abby
Smith, Annie
Smith, Bradley F.
Smith, Chris
Smith, F. Dow
Smith, Jane
Smith, John
Smith, Merrily
Smith, Richard D.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Library
Smithsonian Magazine
Smyth, Albert H.
Snow, C. P.
Sobotka, Werner K.
Sommer, Andrew
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
space, storage concerns
in digitizing
in discarding materials
at Library of Congress
microfilm and
Rider’s theories on
see also steady-space model
Spanish-American War
Sparks, Peter G.
deacidification supported by
preservation crisis as viewed by
Slow Fires and
Spatz, Richard
Spaulding, Carl M.
Sperry Rand Univac computer
Spettatore Egiziano
Spofford, Ainsworth
Srodes, James
Stam, David H.
Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC)
Stanford University
deterioration survey of
in Digital Library Initiative
double-fold testing at
microfilm program of
Stange, Eric
Starr, Kevin
Starr, Mary Jane
Stars and Stripes
State Historical Society of Iowa
State Historical Socie
ty of Wisconsin
State Library of Pennsylvania
“Statement on the Significance of Primary Records” (Tanselle)
Stauffer Chemical
steady-space model
Stern, Sol
“stock control”
storage, see space, storage concerns
Stout, Leon J.
Ströfer-Hua, E.
“Study of Library Cost Accounting” (Rider)
“Substituting Images for Books: The Economics for Libraries” (Lesk)
Sullivan, Larry E.
Sullivan, Robert C.
SUNY Binghamton
Sutton, George P.
SWAC, see Standards Western Automatic Computer
Swan, John
Swanson, Don R.
Swartzell, Ann
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Syracuse Daily Standard
Syracuse Public Library
Syracuse University
TAAC, see Technology Assessment Advisory Committee
Tailor, Bhavna
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Poe)
Tanselle, G. Thomas
Taraba, Suzy
Tate, Vernon D.
Taube, Mortimer
Tauber, Maurice F.
Taylor, Bayard
Taylor, Merrily
Taylor-Merchant Corporation
“Technical Considerations in Choosing Mass Deacidification Processes” (Sparks)
Technology Assessment Advisory Committee (TAAC)
Telegraph the
Telephone Idea, The (Pound)
TenEyck, Hendrix
Tennessee, University of, Hodges Library at
Terry and the Pirates
Texas, University of
Texas Alkyls
Text and Image SAC
Text-Book of True Temperance, A (United States Brewers’ Association)
Thompson, Jack C.
3M
Tibbles, Susette La Flesche (“Bright Eyes”)
Time
Timothy Hughes Rare and Early Newspapers
Titanic
“To Film or to Scan”
Toppino, Emmett
Toronto Star, The
Toth, Alexander
Transactions (American Institute)
Trinity College, Cambridge
TRW
Tucker, Ichabod
Tulis, Allen
Tumosa, Charles S.
Turn Endurance Test
“Turning to Dust” (TV episode)
Turock, Betty J.
Twain, Mark
Tydings, Millard
UCLA, see Los Angeles, University of California at
ultrafiche
Umehara, Sueji
UNESCO
Union Carbide
Union City (N.J.) Public Library
United Aircraft
United Negro College Fund
United States Brewers’ Association
Univac computer
University Microfilms (UMI)
see also Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Unsworth, Michael E.
Urquhart, J. A.
Urquhart, N. C.
usable, definitions of
U.S. Newspaper Program
Utah, University of
Vacudyne
Vallee, Fay Webb
Vallee, Rudy
Vanity Fair
vBNS (very high performance Backbone Network Service)
Veaner, Allen B.
Venick, Charles
Verac
Verba, Sidney
Veronese, Giuseppe
Vienneau, David
Virgil
Virginia State Library
lamination program of
Visit to China, India, and Japan in the Year 1853, A (Taylor)
Vonnegut, Kurt
von Wahlde, Barbara
Wächter, Otto
Wagman, Frederick
Waite, David P.
Waitt, Alden H.
Walker, Gay
Ward 81 (Mark)
Warnock, John
Warren, S. D.
Washington Evening Star
Washington Post, The
Washington Post Magazine, The
Wasserman, Paul
Waters, Michael
Waters, Peter
Waugh, Evelyn
Weaver, Warren
Weber, Charles G.
Weber, David C.
Weeks, Linton
Wei T’o process
Wells, H. G.
Wells Fargo Foundation
Welsh, William J.
deacidification supported by
optical-disk scanning supported by
preservation crisis as viewed by
Slow Fires and
on space concerns
Wesleyan University
Westvaco
White, Linda J.
Whiting, Lilian
Whitman, Walt
Wiederkehr, Robert R. V.
Wildlife Disease
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Williams, Gordon
Williams, John C.
Williams, Pat
Williams, Richard L.
Williams, R. J.
Wilson, William K.
Winger, Howard W.
Winks, Robin W.
Wisconsin Historical Society Library
Wise, David
Wolfson, Bernard T.
wood-pulp paper
making of
in newspapers
Woodsworth, Anne
Woolf, Virginia
Wooster, Harold
Worker, the
“Working Paper on the Future” (Commission on Preservation and Access)
Workman, Fanny
World’s Fair:
New York (1964)
Seattle (1962)
World War II
World Wide Web
WPA, Historical Records Survey of
Wright, Louis B.
Wright, Richard
Wright, Susan
Wylly, Alexander
Wyman, C. W. H.
Xerox Corporation
Xerox Haloid
Xerox Magnavox Telecopier
Xerox-UMI
Yagoda, Ben
“Yale Survey, The: A Large-Scale Study of Book Deterioration in the Yale University Library” (Walker et al.)
Yale University
deterioration study at
double-fold tests at
materials discarded by
microfilm program of
preservation crisis as viewed by
Sterling Memorial Library at
Yasinsky, Bohdan
Yates, Sidney
Yellow Kid, The
“yellow snow”
Yerburgh, Mark R.
Yerburgh, Rhoda
Young, John Russell
Zentrum für Bucherhaltung (ZFB) (Center for Conservation)
Zinman, Michael
About the Author
* * *
NICHOLSON BAKER was born in 1957 and attended the Eastman School of Music and Haverford College. He has published five novels—The Mezzanine (1988), Room Temperature (1990), Vox (1992), The Fermata (1994), and The Everlasting Story of Nory (1998)—and two works of nonfiction, U and I (1991) and The Size of Thoughts (1996). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, American Libraries, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Essays. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children.
Copyright © 2001 by Nicholson Baker
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Parts of this book were originally published in The New Yorker.
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Baker, Nicholson.
Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper / Nicholson Baker.
p. cm.
1. Libraries—United States—Special collections—Newspapers. 2. Newspaper and periodical libraries—United States. 3. Newspapers—Conservation and restoration. 4. Paper—Preservation—United States. I. Title.
Z695.655 .B35 2001
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