%0 Book %E Carignan, Yvonne, 1952- %I Scarecrow Press %D 2005 %C Lanham, Md. %G English %@ 0810851199 %@ 9780810851191 %T Who wants yesterday's papers? : essays on the research value of printed materials in the digital age %X The conference organizers (the editors of this volume) were originally prompted by Nicholson Baker's Double Fold, which urged librarians to create microfilm instead of saving newspapers and other printed artifacts in their original format. Baker's complaint served as the catalyst for a much wider exchange of views. Four University of Maryland professors were invited to discuss the kinds of materials used in their disciplines. We learn, for example, that although physicists now seem to be dispensing with paper and traditional print communication altogether, literary scholars are becoming more interested in the materiality of texts. Complementing these essays are an equal number by well-known librarians and archivists bringing considerable expertise on various aspects of preservation of both print and digital artifacts. Who Wants Yesterday's Papers? considers some of the difficult challenges facing both scholarship and libraries and will interest anyone concerned with the preservation of the record of human experience.