I quote from
http://www.libr.org/Juice/issues/vol3/LJ_3.28.html#9
As some of you already must know and others will have heard soon enough,
there is a scathing, disturbing article by Nicholson Baker in the
current
New Yorker (7/24/2000, p 48-) about the dereliction of
responsibilities by
the library profession with respect to the preservation of the
complete
historic record and our stewardship of the human birthright of
ideas and
their embodiments, in their original formats, to the best of our
ability.
Entitled "Deadline" it regards the literal "trashing of America's
newspapers" by the libraries of record, including the British
Library, the
Library of Congress, the NYPL Research Library, other major
research
institutions as well as local, regional and state libraries of all
kinds.
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