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Re: [SLE] [OT...sort of]Hardcopy or electronic books?
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:34:15 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511222014030.23521@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Tuesday 2005-11-22 at 07:12 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> As I said, I love books, too, but Nicholson Baker is so agog over his
> beloved newspapers that he sees them as treasures to be preserved, not
> records of their times to be made accessible to the public. His is an
> antiquarian agenda, not a public information agenda. I'm not
> necessarily saying fiche or film is (or was) the right solution to the
> challenge of archival storage for newspapers, but neither do I believe
> that paper is the apex of information recording and distribution media.
Neither do I.
But saving our precious data (knowledge, history, whatever) _only_ in
somekind of electronic media could be dangerous in the very-long-term.
Perhaps there is need to safekeep in paper or something as durable, and
use in crystalmemorycube or whatever.
That's an ongoing debate in big libraries, I understand, as Fergus hinted.
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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The Tuesday 2005-11-22 at 07:12 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> As I said, I love books, too, but Nicholson Baker is so agog over his
> beloved newspapers that he sees them as treasures to be preserved, not
> records of their times to be made accessible to the public. His is an
> antiquarian agenda, not a public information agenda. I'm not
> necessarily saying fiche or film is (or was) the right solution to the
> challenge of archival storage for newspapers, but neither do I believe
> that paper is the apex of information recording and distribution media.
Neither do I.
But saving our precious data (knowledge, history, whatever) _only_ in
somekind of electronic media could be dangerous in the very-long-term.
Perhaps there is need to safekeep in paper or something as durable, and
use in crystalmemorycube or whatever.
That's an ongoing debate in big libraries, I understand, as Fergus hinted.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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