Lac-Mégantic and the Importance of Digital Archiving | The Scholarly Kitchen A recent article in *Library Journal*<http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/07/industry-news/fire-destroys-canadian-library-archive/>reports that one casualty of the explosion and fire in Lac-Mégantic was the village’s library and its collection, “which included more than 60,000 books, CDs, and DVDs, and a local history archive.” The loss of the commercially-published books and recordings held in the library’s general collection is truly unfortunate—but the loss of the archive is tragic. As the article points out, http://bit.ly/15BTEvN Source: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/08/05/lac-megantic-and-the-importance-of-digital-archiving/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/15BTEvN+ 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] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org 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]
