ARL Letter to the Editors, New York Review, April 25, 2001
ARL Letter to the Editor, New York Times, May 9, 2001
Q and A in Response to Nicholson Baker's Double Fold
Baker, Nicholson, "Deadline: The Author's Desperate Bid to Save America's Past," New Yorker, July 24, 2000, pp. 42-61.
Talking Points in Response to Nicholson Baker's Article in the 24 July New Yorker
Lambert, Mark. "Double Fold : Double Trouble." H-Net Discussions. http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Law&month=0106&week=d&msg=%2bOC3qO3tRcvD7of/3dsDCA&user=&pw=
Cox, Richard J. "Don't Fold Up: Responding to Nicholson Baker's Double Fold," The Society of American Archivists, News Archives.
Darnton, Robert. "The Great Book Massacre," New York Review of Books, April 26, 2001. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14196
Dirda, Michael. Review of Double Fold, Washington Post Book World, April 15, 2001, p. 15.
Fisher, Barbara. "Book Review: Short Takes," Boston Globe, April 22, 2001. [Commercial archive site: http://www.boston.com/globe/search/]
Gates, David. "Paper Chase," New York Times Book Review, April 15, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/15/reviews/010415.15gatest.html
Kakutani, Michiko. "'Double Fold': Microfilm Gets a Black Eye From a Friend of Paper," New York Times, April 10, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/10/arts/10KAKU.html&OQ=searchpvQ3Dsite06
Publisher's Weekly, April 2, 2001, p. 53.
Quint, Barbara. "'Don't Burn Books! Burn Librarians!! A Review of Nicholson Baker's Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper," Searcher, 9, no.6, June, 2001. http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jun01/voice.htm
Rubin, Merle, "The Bonfire of Books," Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 2001 http://www.csmonitor.com/
Smith, Stephen, "The Library's War on books," Globe and Mail, April 21, 2001 http://www.globebooks.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.GAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=book/review/AP/fullStory-BookReview&cf=book/review/AP/config-neutral&slug=BKFOLD&date=20010421
Brown, Ian. "Paper Savior," Globe and Mail, April 21, 2001.
Burns, Grant. "To Breath Is to Judge: An Attempt to Think Calmly about Nicholson Baker's Book, Double Fold," Uncle Frank's Diary, no. 2 (May 2001) http://www.newpages.com/unclefrank/Number02.htm
Digitized History, New York Times editorial, April 22, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/opinion/22SUN2.html?searchpv=site01
McHenry, Eric. "Nicholson Baker: The Gutenberg Purge," Atlantic Unbound, May 10, 2001. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2001-05-10.htm
Powers, Katherine A. "My Back Pages: The Rage for Destruction at Libraries," Boston Globe, April 22, 2001. [Commercial archive site: http://www.boston.com/globe/search/]
Sciolino, Elaine. "Preserving Books? It's Easy on Paper," New York Times, April 7, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/07/arts/07PAPE.html?searchpv=site09
Garner, Dwight. "The Collector," New York Times Book Review, April 15, 2001. [An interview with Nicholson Baker.] http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/15/reviews/010415.15garner.html
The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU Radio, May 1, 2001 [An interview with Nicholson Baker conducted by Steve Roberts.] http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/ (Real Audio file)
"Saving Newspapers Keeps History Alive," News-Gazette, April 16, 2001. [Local Champaign-Urbana newspaper, AP story from Rollinsford, NH]
Weeks, Linton, "Tiger on the Paper Trail: Novelist Nicholson Baker Says Libraries Will Be the Death of Documents," Washington Post, May 5, 2001, p. C1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46844-2001May4?language+printer
Young, Jeffrey R., "Logging in with . . . Nicholson Baker: Author Says Libraries Shouldn't Abandon Paper." Chronicle of Higher Education, May 10, 2001 http://chronicle.com/free/2001/05/2001051003t.htm
Zacharek, Stephanie, "'Double Fold' by Nicholson Baker." Salon.com, April 27, 2001 http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/27/baker/
Preserving Research Collections: A Collaboration Between Librarians and Scholars http://www.arl.org/preserv/presresources/Research_Collections.shtml
Conway, Paul. Brief Statement about Preservation Microfilming at Yale University, April 16, 2001. http://www.arl.org/preserv/presresources/preservation_yale.shtml
Cox, Richard J., "The Great Newspaper Caper: Backlash in the Digital Age," First Monday, 5, no. 12, December 2000. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_12/cox/
Fialkoff, Francine, "Baker's Book Is Half-Baked: Libraries Are Not Museums," Library Journal Digital, May 15, 2001. http://www.libraryjournal.com/articles/views/insidetrack/20010515_18544.asp
Harvard University Library, A Letter from Sydney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director the University Library, April 27, 2001 http://preserve.harvard.edu
"Don't Burn Books! Burn Librarians!! A Review of Nicholson Baker's Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper," by Barbara Quint, Editor, Searcher Magazine http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jun01/voice.htm
Preserving Library Collections at Harvard http://www.arl.org/preserv/presresources/preserving_harvard.shtml
Library of Congress, Preservation Directorate. "Basic Facts About Paper Deterioration," May 2001 http://www.arl.org/preserv/presresources/loc_preserv.shtml
National Library of Medicine's Preservation Practices http://www.nlm.nih.gov/psd/pcm/nlmprespract.html
Preservation of Library Materials at Columbia http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/libraries.html
Slate, the book club. "A Crusade Against Microfilm," April 17, 2001. http://slate.msn.com
Thomas, Sarah, Cornell University Librarian, April 13, 2001. http://www.arl.org/preserv/presresources/sarah_thomas.shtml
Response from Dale Canelas, Director of Libraries, University of Florida, to "Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper" http://www.ufl.edu/
University of Pittsburgh, Response to Nicholson Baker's "Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper" http://www.library.pitt.edu/
Wittenborg, Karin, University Librarian, University of Virginia. "A Librarian Looks at Preservation" a talk given at the "Do We Want to Keep our Newspapers?" Conference, University of London, March 2001 http://www.arl.org/preserv/presresources/wittenborg.shtml