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The article discusses the alleged demise of the use of paper in light of the increase in digital technologies. Topics discussed include the rise of e-books and their impact on printed books, the worldwide consumption and production of paper, and books including "The Myth of the Paperless Office" by Richard Harper, "Parchment, Paper, Pixels: Law and the Technologies of Communication" by Peter M. Tiersma, and "On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History" by Nicholas A. Basbanes.

Features Center for Book and Paper Arts at Chicago, Illinois-based Columbia College's paper making program. Columbia College's curriculum; Paper making procedure.

OTTAWA -- AbitibiBowater, the large newsprint maker formed through a merger three years ago, announced it had emerged from bankruptcy protection on Thursday. Debt and declining newsprint demand in North America led the company to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware, as well as similar protection under Canadian receivership laws, in April 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

1. PAPER tale Sheets of paper were once handmade from discarded cloth. For the course ''Medieval and Renaissance Literature,'' at the University of Washington in Seattle, students envision the papermaking process, and how an apprentice might have swept up a cloud of dust, fly included, that then settled into an open vat of paper pulp. The paper -- and the fly -- ended up in the university's copy of ''La Civil Conversazione,'' a book of etiquette printed in Venice in 1579. 2. THE EVOLUTION OF KNOWLEDGE Because it was large, decorative and expensive, the Nuremberg Chronicle, a world history published in Germany in 1493, was treasured and preserved. About 700 copies remain from a print run of perhaps 2,100. How many of the 1,804 illustrations were colored by hand after printing depended on how much the owner could afford to pay an artist. The pictured drawing, based on a second-century map by Ptolemy, makes a teaching point for ''The History of Science'' at Smith College: though seafarers had long known otherwise, the belief that the world was limited to portions of Europe, Asia and Africa prevailed. Direct observation would soon replace the authority of classical learning, laying the basis for modern science. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BEIJING -- Angry demonstrators entered a government office in the port city of Qidong, near Shanghai, on Saturday and smashed computers and destroyed furniture to protest a waste discharge plant that they said would pollute the water supply. In reaction, the local government Web site said Saturday that plans for the discharge plant, which was to be part of a paper manufacturing plant, had been abandoned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article profiles Terry Belanger, who retired in September 2009 as director of the Rare Book School, which he founded and where he teaches. It notes that his approach to rare books is that of a mechanic. He is interested in what can be learned from the physical characteristics of rare books and the way they are put together. His students learn to set movable type, print with a press and research bookbinding, papermaking, illustration techniques and typography. His students have gone on to become rare book librarians in major universities. Belanger, it states, is interested in functionality. His approach replaced a fusty worhipfulness towards old books, which he calls pretty book syndrome. He collects flawed specimens so he can take them apart to teach his students how they are made.

A guide to cultural and recreational goings-on in and around the Hudson Valley. Items for the guide should be sent at least three weeks in advance to westweek@nytimes.com, or by mail to Westchester Calendar, Metropolitan, 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018-1405. Film [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Looks at Rutgers University in New Brunswick's papermaking project designed to help villagers in several settlements in Ecuador. Overview on the life condition in the village; Building of a pulp-processing facility in the industrial town of Ibarra; Key for successful papermaking with sisal; Handling of the Rutgers project by CARE Ecuador, a nonprofit agency.