[PADG:1277] Re: Richard Cox takes on Nicholson Baker--live!

["Robert J. Milevski" <milevski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lorraine,

It would be interesting to know which of the two is "our guy."

Robert

At 09:07 AM 4/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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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>Lorraine Olley
>Head, Preservation Department
>Northwestern University Library
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>Evanston, IL 60208
>USA
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