digital archives

[George Porter]

The current issue of First Monday
<http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_12/index.html> has an interesting
article by Richard J Cox.  Cox's article, "The great newspaper caper:
backlash in the digital age"
<http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_12/cox/index.html> is a response to
one of Nicholson Baker's libraries and technology broadsides.  

I was particularly struck by the article since I had just read the CLIR
document, "Minimum criteria for an archival repository of digital scholarly
journals" <http://www.clir.org/diglib/preserve/criteria.htm>, which Roy
Tennant highlighted in his abstract of Deanna Marcum's October C&RL News
article in the November issue of Current Cites
<http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2000/cc00.11.11.html>.

Baker, by the way, is scheduled to speak at ALA Annual in San Francisco in
June, as part of a Progressive Librarians Guild program.  His address is
tentatively titled, "'Last Available Copy' : The Politics of Paper".

George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
Caltech, 1-43
Pasadena, CA  91125-4300
Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681