That's what we get for putting bureaucrats in charge of the repositories, instead of Library Science specialists, and trained archivists. EVERYTHING we do these days as a society is based on "cost effectiveness" and short-term savings. What we lose is ultimately much more valuable than the expenses "saved". If we don't preserve our history and learn from it, we are bound to repeat past mistakes over and over again. C. --- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Some of the world's biggest repositories of bound newspaper volumes have been dumping theirs in favor of microfilm because it takes up less storage space. Microfilm not only deteriorates much faster than old cloth-based paper, but it also can't record details as well.
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