Could we solve the "achilles heel" concern by having an organization like OCLC which archives all the bibliographic records for 22,000 libraries take on the Hashing/Time-Stamping service. They are disinterested and not involved in any specific topic, have a robust technological infrastructure and hopefully will be around for a very long time. They have already existed 25 years which is fairly long time in technology terms.
Paul M. Gherman University Librarian 611B General Library 419 21st Avenue South Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37240 Office: (615) 322-7120 Fax: (615) 343-8279 [email protected]
