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From: "M. Hurst" <>
Subject: Re: [FENS] Food for thought/"Microfilm and the Internet promise to destroy"
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:41:30 -0000
References: <005c01c04785$2e71b440$941f2acb@cher>

I concur with this argument. When I was at library school in 1985 the Video
Disc was all the rage - whose got a player now? What happened to the BBC
Domesday project that was published in this format, in which hundreds of
school children recorded information about their local community? As a
parent at the time who drove kids round collecting data on our village and
helping them to record the information on a BBC computer (remember those?),
was it all wasted?

With original records, the problems are entirely different. Anything in
paper will not last long unless it's conserved. Did you know that the
stocks in the British Library are literally crumbling away to dust?

Janet Hurst

----- Original Message -----
From: Cheryl Woodward <>
To: <>
Sent: 06 November 2000 00:04
Subject: Re: [FENS] Food for thought/"Microfilm and the Internet promise to
destroy"


> Hi,
>
> Keeping records in originial paper format involves a considerable effort
in
> preservation. Sometimes the only way to make records available to future
> audiences is through microfilming. Decisions take into accounts economics
> and space as well as quality of originial format.
>
> Another thought to ponder is that of electronic records. Technology is
> changinging so rapidly that records created in electronic format even 5
> years pervious are unable to be read today. How will electronic records
> created now be read in the future. There are so may different hardware
> opitions, software applications and standards that can be used to try andd
> keep electronic records accessible. I can envision a time when all records
> created are kept in electonic format due to the decrease cost of storage
but
> will we be able to read them?
>
> Cheers
> Cheryl ( current studying for a degree in library technology that
consists
> of Records Management as a minor study)
>
> ______________________________

This thread:

• [FENS] Food for thought/"Microfilm and the Internet promise to destroy" by Martin Edwards <>
  • Re: [FENS] Food for thought/"Microfilm and the Internet promise to destroy" by "Cheryl Woodward" <>
    • RE: [FENS] Food for thought/"Microfilm and the Internet promise to destroy" by "Peter Blades" <>

    • Re: [FENS] Food for thought/"Microfilm and the Internet promise to destroy" by "M. Hurst" <>