Here are some recent email comments from Jennifer Paustenbaugh, our University Librarian, on digital preservation:
- “We have to get this right. If we don't, then not much else that we’re doing in research libraries matters. If we don’t fully develop a sustainable digital preservation program, we could negatively impact whole areas of research, because materials created right now could just disappear. I think about gaps that exist in records because of man-made events and natural disasters. This could be a disaster of our own making.”
- "I truly believe that of all the things we’re doing in the library, this is the thing that has the potential to make the biggest difference to scholars 20 or 50 years from now. Much of the digital content that we are preserving will be gone forever if we don’t do this right. It’s a role that at once is formidable and humbling. And for most people, it will probably never be important until something that is vital to their research is just missing (and forever unavailable) from the historical record."
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