[Web4lib] Paperless society

[Anderson, Patricia]

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

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of David Rothman
Sent: Mon 2/11/2008 10:04 AM
To: Carol Bean
Cc: Jocelyn Shaw; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Paperless society
 
And it is convenient to have a horse-and-buggy if your car breaks down.  So?

On Feb 11, 2008 9:51 AM, Carol Bean <beanworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not so inefficient when the internet connection is down or non-existent
>
> Carol
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2008 9:35 AM, David Rothman <david.rothman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Jocelyn-
> >
> > Telephone books are *much* more scarce than they used to be.  That you
> > continue to use the most inefficient available container for this sort
> > of
> > information doesn't make the assertion silly or wrong.
> >
> > -David
> > David Rothman
> > Community General Hospital Medical Library
> > Syracuse, NY
> >  On Feb 11, 2008 9:29 AM, Jocelyn Shaw <redfernshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I had to chuckle at the quote:
> > >
> > >  "'Paper is no longer the master copy; the digital version is,' says
> > > Brewster Kahle, the founder and director of the Internet Archive, a
> > > nonprofit digital library. 'Paper has been dealt a complete deathblow.
> > > When
> > > was the last time you saw a telephone book?'"...
> > >
> > > Having used the phone book twice in the last 20 minutes to answer
> > > reference
> > > questions I found it quite humorous.
> > >
> > >
> > > Jocelyn Shaw
> > > Librarian
> > > Hackley Public Library
> > > 316 W Webster
> > > Muskegon MI 49440
> > >
> > > The Smartest Card. Get it. Use it.
> > > @ the Hackley Public Library
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> >
>
> --
> Carol Bean
> beanworks at gmail.com
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