May 11, 2001
Novelist Accuses Librarians of Destroying Collections in Rush to Technology; Little Research Supports Concept of 'Closure' in Public Executions
BAKER VS. THE 'BUTCHERS': Librarians do not like to be called book butchers. Many are outraged at a muckraking new book by the novelist Nicholson Baker that charges research libraries with destroying old newspapers and books in a rush to microfilm and digitize them.
Now the Association of Research Libraries has returned fire in a letter sent last month to the editor of The New York Review of Books, which ran a glowing review of Mr. Baker's book under the headline "The Great Book
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