Our library is having a crisis because the online resources cost the library a lot lot more than the old fashioned paper journals!
Wayne Begin forwarded message: > From: Christopher Wilke <[email protected]> > Date: November 11, 2010 9:20:30 PM EST > > Things are increasingly turning to online resources, but this raises real > issues of ephemerality. What is the probability that someone a hundred years > from now will be able to access the exact online information that people the > people in 2010 accessed? The long-term survivability of much of today's > information might very well depend on loose printouts, made and preserved at > some anonymous user's whim. Digital storage media has also shown that it is > far less reliable than first believed (CDRs only have about a ten year shelf > life, for example.) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
