Vandals in the Stacks? A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries

by Richard J. Cox

Libraries and archives have violated their public trust, argues Nicholson Baker in his controversial book IDouble Fold R, by destroying traditional books, newspapers, and other paper-based collections. Baker's powerful and persuasive book is wrong and misleading, and Cox critiques it point by point, questioning his research, his assumptions, and his arguments about why and how newspapers, books, and other collections are selected and maintained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313323445
• ISBN13: 9780313323447
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 10.0"