[PADG:1272] Richard Cox takes on Nicholson Baker--live!

[Lorraine Olley <l-olley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At the Center for Research Libraries meeting on Friday, there was a 
thoughtful and witty presentation by Archivist Richard Cox responding to 
Nicholson Baker's allegations about newspapers and their 
preservation.   Cox mentioned that he will be debating Baker at Simmons on 
May 16.  The announcement for the event is at 
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/alumni/alumnday01.html.  I don't know if this 
has been widely publicized, but I do hope that my east coast colleagues 
will be able to attend "The Great Paper Debate" and cheer for our guy.

You may read Cox's response to Baker's New Yorker article on newspapers in 
First Monday http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_12/cox/.


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