Hidden "cost" of digitization of resources

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Paul Levy <PLEVY () citizen org>
Date: March 13, 2007 1:42:45 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Hidden "cost" of digitization of resources

Interesting and quite long article in the Times Business Section on  
Sunday, beginning page  about one of the downsides of digitization of  
books and similar printed resources.  The thesis is that as we come  
to expect sources to be available digitally, and thus to rely on what  
we can find and search that way, those sources that are NOT  
digitized  are lost to cultural memory.  And, despite what seems to  
be the vast quantity or material being scanned for inclusion in  
digital libraries, much more cannot be scanned  because it is the  
wrong size, or because it is not deemed economically feasible to scan  
them....

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/business/yourmoney/11archive.html? 
_r=1&oref=slogin



Paul Alan Levy
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 588-1000
http://www.citizen.org/litigation

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