Ted Koppel makes some very important points in his posting on the future of the AJL Newsletter. His comments suggest that we ought to be thinking of how to ensure the preservation of Jewish digital resources. Is there an institution that has undertaken to maintain a perpetual archive of these?
I am aware of various initiatives to preserve digital resources, such as Hathi Trust and the arrangement between Elsevier and the Dutch Royal Library. But I suspect that there are many Jewish publications that aren't included in these projects. I would be delighted to learn that the Jewish library community has already anticipated this problem and begun to deal with it; but if that's not the case, isn't it time to start thinking about this? Fred Lerner --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
