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J Kaufman	Post subject: Onward and downward Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:24 am
Joined: Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:47 pm Posts: 4655 Location: New York City	News library layoffs and buyouts [Via Michelle Quigley of the Palm Beach Post] Quote: Newspaper morgues used to be the repositories of each publication’s institutional history as well as the librarians who painstakingly clipped and indexed stories for posterity. Today? The libraries of most large newspapers and many magazines have been slashed by half or more and, in many cases, shuttered entirely. Yet hundreds of librarians have managed to adapt—focusing on computer-assisted reporting, data retrieval and the like and a few libraries-within-newsrooms are even thriving. Some are even looking to their morgues to produce revenue by licensing or syndicating the newspaper’s archived content or doing custom research. [News Hook] Incidentally, newspapers have [or had] libraries, not morgues. The Times, I think, had one room for clippings, another for reference books. To call it a "morgue" was to employ the same sort of humor that sticks press cards in hatbands, and I never met anyone brave enough to use the M-word in the presence of a newspaper librarian.
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