Shift From Paper to Digital Libraries Offers New Preservation Challenges

Fragile digital data in danger of fading past history’s reach, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (6-7-06)

  • “Many of the records that once allowed historians to study a society’s history — from personal correspondence to government documents — may be slipping, irretrievably, into the digital ether…compared to the sturdy format of paper and books, digital information is extremely fragile, disappearing as software becomes obsolete, hardware breaks down and viruses wipe out volumes.”
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