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Preservation & Digital Imaging: How are We Doing?
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November 28, 2007
So far, the new millennium has been a challenging one for preservation librarians. After having been the darling of librarianship for much of the 1980s and 1990s, we have had our comeuppance. The publication last year of Nicholson Barker's assault on librarians, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, was an attack, staged in the mainstream media – and preceded in mid-2000 by the requisite piece of hubris in The New Yorker: ‘The author's desperate bid to save America's past’ – on the national preservation microfilming initiative. It was widely reviewed and discussed, and was even rumored (not realized, as it turned out) to be a likely recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.
Published Online: 2007-11-28
Published in Print: 2002-September
© 2002 by K.G. Saur
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