[Web4lib] Paperless society

[Mark Sandford]

Not just critical information is at stake.  How many people are trusting
burned CD to store their family photos?  Digital is great, but that CD
probably won't last half a decade.  Meanwhile, I've got paper photos of
family going back to the Civil War era.

-- 
Mark Sandford
Special Formats Cataloger
William Paterson University
(973)270-2437
sandfordm1 at wpunj.edu


On Feb 11, 2008 10:38 AM, Anderson, Patricia <pfa at umich.edu> wrote:

> Personally, being a tad on the paranoid side, if the information is
> electronic and suddenly disappears, it is extremely useful to have a paper
> archive to prove you weren't hallucinating. :) I am a HUGE fan of
> redundancy, especially for critical information. By "critical" I mean any
> information that might be essential in case of a disaster response scenario.
> Phone books are an excellent example of the type of information that is
> often overlooked on a daily basis but which become absolutely essential in a
> disaster or crisis.
>
> I would really like to see librarians, as a collective, partner with other
> service professions to develop an agreed upon set of core information that
> requires duplication in a variety of locations and formats for the purpose
> of disaster and crisis preparation and response.
>
>  -- Patricia Anderson, pfa at umich.edu
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