HISTORY YOU CAN HOLD IN YOUR HANDS

As libraries become more and more electronic, they’ve been dumping some of their paper archives. “When the British Library decided to dump a historic archive of American newspapers, the best-selling novelist Nicholson Baker was so horrified he decided to buy it for himself. He is now engaged in a one-man campaign to rescue ‘the raw store of history’ that microfilm and the internet promise to destroy.” – The Telegraph (UK)