“Certainly digital archiving is becoming the new normal, but it’s not replacing paper,” Feeney said. “It’s coming in as an addition to the paper. There may be a change around the corner, but right now we’ve continued receiving more and more electronic files but we’re continuing to receive the traditional material in the same or greater quantities.”
While Northwestern archivists said their program could be the first in the nation to tap into the junk drawers of the public for mobile devices, Dennis Meissner, president of the Society of American Archivists, said that the problem of turning on and deciphering outdated technology is not a new one. Technologies such as microfilm, magnetic media and wax media are just some of the devices that archivists have had to tackle.
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