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Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper (Note: PDF)

From the CLIR website

This white paper examines preservation issues relevant to large-scale digitization projects such as those being done by Google, Microsoft, and the Open Content Alliance. The paper identifies issues that will influence the availability and usability, over time, of the digital books being created by large-scale digitizing projects, and considers the relationship of these new resources to print collections. It concludes with a set of recommendations for rethinking a preservation strategy.
Public comment is sought through October 5.


Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 1: A Cyberinfrastructure Primer for Librarians
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Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries

From the D-Lib Magazine website

"Cyberinfrastructure" refers to a comprehensive and integrated system of hardware, networks, software, and middleware, designed to support a range of advanced data acquisition, storage, management, integration, mining, and visualization over the Internet.


Hamlet’s Blackberry: Why Paper Is Eternal (Note: PDF)

From the Joan Shorenstein Center website

The condition of American journalism in the first decade of the twenty-first century can be expressed in a single unhappy word: crisis. Whether it’s a plagiarism scandal at a leading newspaper, the fall from grace of a network anchorman or a reporter behind bars, the news about the news seems to be one emergency after another. But the crisis that has the greatest potential to undermine what the craft does best is a quiet one that rarely draws the big headlines: the crisis of paper. Paper’s long career as a medium of human communication, and in particular as a purveyor of news, may be ending.