Please, check it out. And, show your friends. Sometimes public investigations quell the uncertainty of interpretations of the meaning of these events, sometimes they fuel the fire of controversy. Today s newspaper is the first draft of history, and Nothing is more dead than yesterday s newspaper. Both in a way are true.
News feeds history with facts, yet most of it is forgotten.
That is the disaster that Nicholson Baker denounces in his latest book, a J accuse pointed at the library profession. Librarians have purged their shelves of newspapers, he argues, because they are driven by a misguided obsession with saving space. And they have deluded themselves into believing that nothing has been lost, because they have replaced the papers with microfilm. The microfilm, however, is inadequate, incomplete, faulty, and frequently illegible. A SLIS Alum Shifts Careers Wireless looks to be the next big growth industry.