Boston.com has an exciting archivist
Story on the troubles facing todays archivists.
Actually, the biggest problem is one scholars and archivists already confront. It\’s not an excess of access but the reverse. For the wonderful world of digitized information and on line everything has a dark archival underbelly: The more sophisticated information technology becomes, and the more readily accessible in the present, the harder it is to preserve and the less accessible it becomes in the future.
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