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Re: New Yorker Article



I used to work in Interlibrary Loans at Cal State Northridge, a member of
the Center for Research Libraries, a major repository of low-use items from
several university collections.  Once in a while, a researcher would request
an old newspaper and we would receive a BOUND VOLUME from CRL -- heavy,
extremely unwieldy, and shedding a continual shower of "cornflakes".  After
using one of these, the researcher would generally comment "I'll never
complain about microfilm again!"

The acid problem, by the way, may vary from signature to signature within a
book; also, just try performing music from a French-printed part,
particularly from the 1920s-1940s -- you can't turn a page without
cornflakes (or perhaps the whole page cracking down the middle).

Misha Schutt
Burbank Public Library


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Cox [mailto:rcox@MAIL.SIS.PITT.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 5:17 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: New Yorker Article

.... Saving all old
newspapers, or believing that everything should be saved, as has already
been stated in this thread, are not defensible ideas at all....

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