Podcast
99% Invisible
The podcast highlighted the book as a thorough examination of the San Francisco Library weeding controversy and its broader implications for library digitization and archiving. Roman Mars and the narrator noted that the author became deeply involved in library activism, and Sharon McKellar mentioned that it was read in library school and became a staple in library science curricula. The discussion conveyed that the title was regarded as an essential text for understanding modern library practices.
Episode: Weeding is Fundamental
It was published later on and discussed the digitization of libraries, events within the context of the San Francisco Public Library, and became a standard text in library science programs.
I'm Nicholson Baker, and I am a writer of books, fiction, nonfiction. And I became for a brief period of time a library activist.
We read the Nicholson Baker book in library school.
Episode: Weeding is Fundamental
The book examined the San Francisco Library weeding controversy within the broader context of library digitization and archiving practices.
After this weeding debacle, Nicholson Baker became even more vested in philosophies and practices of archiving and went on to publish a book that touched on all this called Double Fold. It looks at these events in the much broader context of the digitization of libraries.
Episode: Weeding is Fundamental
The book examined the weeding controversy and broader issues of digitizing libraries, becoming a staple in library science curricula.
After this weeding debacle, Nicholson Baker became even more vested in philosophies and practices of archiving and went on to publish a book that touched on all this called Double Fold.
We read the Nicholson Baker book in library school.