UpFront With Barbara Quint The Future of Durability

摘要

Preservation, the task of retaining knowledge of all kinds in a usable and enduring form forever (if possible), is one of the missions to which all information professionals subscribe at one level or another. Librarians meet their responsibilities in an array of venues from preserving and indexing local history in a public library to collecting company records in a corporate library to building massive content collections in major research libraries. Information professionals working in vendor establishments often build products designed to latch onto content and record it in the most usable format. Digital data, originally considered more fragile than the ponderous tomes of print, has demonstrated a special durability built around its ease of duplication.