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It was an interesting article, but I hope the reason why it showed a lack of knowledge about what many libraries and archives are really doing with digital (and for that matter print)* preservation is because the professor who wrote it was trying to write for an audience. Otherwise, maybe he should go talk to some people that are actually doing digital preservation. If this is what his lectures and classes teach, I'd want a refund of my tuition.

* If print archives were about "data only after it’s no longer needed" why would we even have them? Does he really think archives just take every little thing thrown at them and preserve all this unneeded data because they are bored?