{"id":9006,"date":"2015-10-13T12:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T17:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:03","slug":"the-unseen-theft-of-americas-literary-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/13\/the-unseen-theft-of-americas-literary-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unseen Theft of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Literary History\u00c2\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-unseen-theft-of-americas-literary-history\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/The_Purloined_Letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a microcosm of the danger facing American archives. Because almost nothing is catalogued at the item-level, most of the unique material housed in these most important of repositories is particularly vulnerable to theft. When someone like Breithaupt steals a book, even a very old book, there is a catalog record that tells us it is missing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand likely some kind of duplicate copy somewhere else in the world. But when he steals a letter from Flannery O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Connor to John Crowe Ransom\u00e2\u20ac\u201dunless that letter has been photocopied by another person\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit basically ceases to exist. Not only do we not have the information in it, but we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the information in it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-unseen-theft-of-americas-literary-history\/\">The Unseen Theft of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Literary History \u00e2\u20ac\u00b9 Literary Hub<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the theft of primary source documents from libraries and how the precarious state of our archives affects our nonfiction narratives and memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1090,68,150,1122],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-archives","tag-history","tag-libraries","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9010,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions\/9010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}