In reply to Tom Blake's message, "Scan everything. = 0 linear feet."

 

Wrong List, Tom.  This is the Archives List.  And, to quote Nicholson
Baker,

 

"...digital storage, with its eternally morphing and data-orphaning
formats...is not now an accepted archival-storage medium.  A true
archives must be able to tolerate years of relative inattention; scanned
copies of little-used books, however, demand constant refreshment,
software-revision-upgrading, and new machinery, the long-term costs of
which are unknowable but high."

 

On this point Mr. Baker has it eloquently right.

 

Paul R. Scott, CA, CRM

Records Management Officer

Harris County, TX

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