Canada’s chief librarian & archivist is pushing a modernization project, profession in an uproar. librarians and archivists everywhere now find themselves at a crossroads, caught between their mandate to preserve the best of the analogue past, and the growing need to capture the vital ephemera of the digital world, from photo sites to Twitter exchanges between politicians to websites devoted to political movements such as Occupy and Idle No More. Add to this the inevitable constraints in an age of austerity, and you have what appears to be an unlikely scenario for war — over pride, passion, and the very meaning of the past. http://bit.ly/10dgd7g Source: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Record+breaking/8335572/story.html See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/10dgd7g+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
