Literary Letters, Lost in Cyberspace

NY Times covers a new challenge that awaits literary biographers and cultural historians: e-mail. The problem isn’t that writers and their editors are corresponding less, it’s that they’re corresponding infinitely more — but not always saving their e-mail messages.
“Libraries are looking to the National Archives for guidance. In the coming weeks, the archives expect to award a contract to a company to develop a system that would preserve e-mail correspondence and other electronic records ”free from dependency on any specific hardware or software, potentially forever,” Kenneth Thibodeau, the director of the Electronic Records Archives program at the National Archives and Records Administration, said. Writers’ correspondence may be at risk, but it’s nothing compared to what the federal government is up against.”

September 7, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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