Slow Fires: On the Preservation
of the Human Record
Libraries and archives worldwide are facing the slow deterioration
of their late nineteenth- and twentieth-century print materials.
Papermaking processes used since the mid-1800s have created products
which, because of their acid content, contain the seeds of their
own destruction. Award-winning filmmaker Terry Sanders (who created
Into the Future) highlights the problem and its implications for
the survival of the cultural record.
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Into
the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
With the growth of digital technology, the library and archival
community faces wonderful opportunities to provide new forms of
access to an increasing amount of information, and formidable challenges
in managing that information, especially in ensuring the long-term
availability of, and ready access to, data in digital formats. Traditional
approaches to preservation cannot address the whole range of issues
that arise from data created in digital formats, carried on a variety
of media, such as magnetic tape, CD-ROMs, and computer hard drives,
and retrieved through a large number of software programs that routinely
and rapidly become obsolete.
To inform a variety of publics about issues of preservation in
the electronic age, to articulate what might be at stake for our
society, and to point to ways that individuals and groups can work
together to find solutions to the challenges posed, CLIR and the
American Council of Learned Societies have produced a film on this
subject,
Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge on the Electronic
Age, as well as an accompanying discussion guide
and a compendium of other resources.
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