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Wednesday, September 19, 2001
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september01/flecker/09flecker.html Preserving Scholarly E-Journals Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard University Library For research libraries, the long-term preservation of digital collections may well be the most important issue in digital libraries. In certain ways, digital materials are incredibly fragile, dependent for their continued utility upon technologies that undergo rapid and continual change. In the world of physical research materials, a great number of valuable research resources have been saved passively: acquired by individuals or organizations and stored in little-visited recesses. These physical resources are still viable decades later. This is not the case with the digital equivalents....
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