Re: Archives

[Bill London <london@wsu.edu>]

Regarding Ron Forces's suggestion to preserve the 2020 archives on CDROM,
was that an offer?  
	Would the UI library/special collections agree to do that on a regular
(monthly, biannual?) basis?
	BL




At 08:10 AM 6/5/98 -0700, Ron Force wrote:
>Librarians like archives.  Just as we preserve newspapers and business
>records as reflective of the life of the community, we'd like to
>capture  this history as well.  Rather than lose this snapshot of
>community life and thought, we could make a copy on CDROM and save it in
>Special Collections.  While CDROMs are not truely archival, they have
>the potential to preserve digital information by periodic copying to
>whatever medium may be the current technology.
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