Philly.com has
a short but sweet interview with curator Harry Katz at LOC on the troubles with preservation these days.
\”As society becomes more digitalized, the library is increasingly looking at computer capacity as much as warehouse space in planning its future needs. \”One problem is the hardware,\” Katz said. \”Technology moves so fast that in a few years today\’s computers may be obsolete. No use keeping the disks if they can\’t be read. How much equipment do we have to preserve, too?\”\”
Interesting point I never considered, now they must save computers in order to read the disks in the future.
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