Copies are available around campus in print for the next couple weeks, and IU Home Pages has also created a web-version of the MLS insert. Please, check it out. And, show your friends. 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. All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time.