Nicholson Baker, known for such erotic novels as " Vox " and " The Fermata, " received the general nonfiction award for " Double Fold, " in which he condemns research libraries for destroying newspaper archives.
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In 2001 he published " Double Fold ", in which he accuses certain librarians of lying about the decay of materials and being obsessed with technological fads, at the expense of both the public and historical preservation.
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It cost less than $ 40, but after a few months, the stitches started unraveling, so she traveled to Guangzhou in the neighboring province to take the more radical step of surgically slicing her eyelids to create the double fold.
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In " Double Fold, " he targets the destruction of newspaper archives by America's great research libraries; the archives were replaced with microfilmed copies that are often difficult to read and which lack the color and quality of the originals.
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The circumstances that led Baker to organize the nonprofit American Newspaper Repository and become caretaker for the collection are spelled out in his book, " Double Fold : Libraries and the Assault on Paper, " which was published this month by Random House.
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It contains a double fold of pia mater, and its floor is formed by a transverse band of white substance, the anterior white commissure, which is perforated by blood vessels on their way to or from the central part of the medulla spinalis.
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Baker's microscopic examination of library archiving practices, detailed in his best-selling book " Double Fold : Libraries and the Assault on Paper, " essentially concludes that the professionals charged with preserving the nation's literary heritage have done worse than fail in their mission.
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Cox, who scoffs at Baker's claims of a vast conspiracy to abolish original documents, relentlessly berated Baker during their debate at Simmons College on Alumni Day and has gone so far as to write a book challenging nearly every aspect of " Double Fold ."
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WITH : ASSAULT ON BOOKS-- Nicholson Baker's new book, " Double Fold, " tells a ghastly tale of assaults, loppings, pulpings, burnings and heave-ho-ings committed against books and newspapers by the very people entrusted with their care and conservation : Librarians . ( Browning, Palm Beach Post)
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The term identifies different structures in different phyla : in vertebrates it is a double fold of the peritoneum enclosing the intestines; in other organisms it forms complete or incomplete partitions of the body cavity, whether that is the coelom or, as in the Anthozoa, the gastrovascular cavity.
