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Vandals in the Stacks? A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries.(Book review)
Vandals in the Stacks? A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries by Richard J Cox. (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science no 98) Westport CT Greenwood 2002 219p ISBN 0 313 32344 5 $US79.00
This is an eagerly awaited reply to Nicholson Baker's contentious Double Fold (2001). Cox, wellknown as an archivist and educator, has an impressive record of publications. His flair for forceful utterance and his eagerness to enter controversy make him a powerful author. Vandals in the Stacks? is, like Double Fold, a work any professional librarian and archivist true to the calling should read. Both books will evoke passion and varying degrees of consent. Although keen to be a polemicist, Cox faces a…
- ARL, Baker Parry Over Double Fold.(Association of Research Libraries; Nicholson...
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Albanese, Andrew June 1, 2001 700+ words
...fairness of book Has Nicholson Baker done a good thing for...scathing j'accuse Double Fold: Libraries and the...official response to Nicholson Baker, and to a qualified...Baker asserts that Double Fold could benefit libraries...
- Baker's Book Is Half-Baked.(Nicholson Baker's 'Double Fold')(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Fialkoff, Francine May 15, 2001 700+ words
Libraries are not museums Nicholson Baker doesn't get it. He didn't...microfilming in his latest book, Double Fold (LJ 4/1/01). However admirable...libraries and librarians with Double Fold--most of it negative. Baker...
- A question of trust. (Investigative Report).(Nicholson Baker's book Double Fold...
- Magazine article from: Information Today Poynder, Richard July 1, 2003 700+ words
When novelist Nicholson Baker's book Double Fold was published 2...the claims made in Double Fold, not least because...professional and Nicholson Baker is an amateur...doubt. Certainly, Double Fold has tested the public...
- Baker-inspired backlash at LC?(ongoing controversy at the Library of Congress...
- Magazine article from: Library Journal June 15, 2001 700+ words
...heavily criticized in Nicholson Baker's controversial Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault...Congress Librarians Who Support Double Fold" claims that "there are...since the publication of Double Fold, LC has issued several...
- Nicholson Baker. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper.
- Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada McNally, Peter F. March 22, 2002 700+ words
...October 1996) attracted much public attention as did his collection of essays, The Size of Thoughts (Vintage, 1997). Double Fold is by far his most ambitious effort and constitutes a remarkable tour de force. With 63 pages of endnotes, a 400-item...
- Nicholson Baker Returns in Prose and Prank.('Double Fold' describes his idea to...
- Magazine article from: American Libraries Kniffel, Leonard April 1, 2001 700+ words
Author and activist Nicholson Baker has again taken aim at library...supporter." Baker's new book, Double Fold, published this month by Random...Unique treasure must be preserved Double Fold chronicles Baker's efforts to...
- Double-Edged: Is Nicholson Baker a Friend of Libraries?(author who is critical...
- Magazine article from: Library Journal June 1, 2001 700+ words
...in April 2001, Nicholson Baker's Double Fold: Libraries and...I'm saying in Double Fold isn't very extreme...LJ: Why would Nicholson Baker, a major voice...Yorker articles to Double Fold, that librarians...
- 'Double Fold' out in paperback this month.
- Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books April 2, 2002 700+ words
...M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The paperback edition of Nicholson Baker's 'Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper' will be...more important than preserving the originals. 'Double Fold' is published by Vintage Books and priced at...
- Double trouble or more: a response to Double Fold.(Double Fold: Libraries and...
- Magazine article from: Libraries & Culture Pavelka, Karen L. June 22, 2002 700+ words
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. By Nicholson Baker. New York: Random House...0-375-50444-3. Double Fold created shock waves and...early in 2001. In it Nicholson Baker attacks librarians and...
- Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review August 1, 2002 700+ words
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Nicholson Baker. Vintage. [pounds sterling]7.99 p.b. 370 pages. ISBN 0-099-42903-9. Any library reader who has had to cope with...
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