John - I am another one who will read a couple of pages on the screen
but any long documents I print out. They still have not made a computer
yet that has the look and feel of paper, or the fact that even though
annotations are available, sitting in a meeting with just a laptop is
much more difficult than that report, or paper to make my notes on.
I too believe in electronic documents and we are using them more and
more, however, no long term solutions have come across my desk yet that
deals with anything other than migration, migration, migration. How
much does it cost an organization to continue with this practice until
the cost becomes so much of an issue that we begin loosing more and more
info because the costs begin to outweigh the importance of maintaining
the documents. I truly believe a lot of historical information will be
gone over the next few years until we get this all figured out!
Sandra Allen
Records Management Supervisor
NB Power
Fredericton, NB
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Subject: Re: [RM] RAINdrip: Wonder if reading through 25 year old
e-mails will evoke the same feelings....
Sounds like a country song in the making Steve! Call me old fashioned
but I hate reading long documents on a computer screen! I print them
out! However, I also realize and appreciate the value of electronic
information. We have old Super 8 movies at home that my parents shot
over 50 years ago and it is still good. Somebody wanted me to change
the film to put it on a CD. I said why, a CD wouldn't last as long as
50 years! The real issue is we don't really have a media to protect the
longevity of electronic information. Even the software/databases where
the information is stored may not be able to retrieve the information in
50 years and certainly would not be IT supported! This is why I have
preached over the years not to purchase disparate COTS software to
manage information. It has to be supported enterprise wide. I would be
really interested in hearing just how many people still prefer to read a
hard copy paper, as opposed to information on a computer screen. I !
still like the feel of a real newspaper in my hand. Cheers.
John
John A. Gervais
Program Manager
Policy and Guidelines Section
Information Policy and Governance Division Statistics and Information
Management Directorate Corporate Strategies and Business Development
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