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| author | Bee, Robert |
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| collection | Education Resources Information Center |
| contents | The Importance of Preserving Paper-Based Artifacts in a Digital Age Bee, Robert Library Materials Microforms Academic Libraries Library Services Electronic Libraries Preservation Library Administration Printed Materials The preservation of paper-based artifacts is an essential issue for collection management in academic libraries. In recent years, the library science profession has often favored reformatting through microfilm or digitization, assuming too quickly that information matters, whereas an artifact's medium does not. However, much recent humanities scholarship has demonstrated the significance of physical artifacts per se. In fact, it is often the most cutting-edge scholarship on race, gender, and history that requires the physical artifact itself for research. Although librarians obviously cannot save every physical artifact, any decision on which artifacts to preserve, deaccession, or reformat (and, for that matter, on how to reformat) requires an understanding of the importance of the original physical format. Since texts acquire meaning through an intricate interplay between physical form and abstract information, the reduction of texts to abstract information alone evinces a misunderstanding of the artifacts in our care and an inadequate theory on which to base preservation decisions. |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2008 |
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| spellingShingle | The Importance of Preserving Paper-Based Artifacts in a Digital Age Bee, Robert Library Materials Microforms Academic Libraries Library Services Electronic Libraries Preservation Library Administration Printed Materials The Importance of Preserving Paper-Based Artifacts in a Digital Age Bee, Robert Library Materials Microforms Academic Libraries Library Services Electronic Libraries Preservation Library Administration Printed Materials The preservation of paper-based artifacts is an essential issue for collection management in academic libraries. In recent years, the library science profession has often favored reformatting through microfilm or digitization, assuming too quickly that information matters, whereas an artifact's medium does not. However, much recent humanities scholarship has demonstrated the significance of physical artifacts per se. In fact, it is often the most cutting-edge scholarship on race, gender, and history that requires the physical artifact itself for research. Although librarians obviously cannot save every physical artifact, any decision on which artifacts to preserve, deaccession, or reformat (and, for that matter, on how to reformat) requires an understanding of the importance of the original physical format. Since texts acquire meaning through an intricate interplay between physical form and abstract information, the reduction of texts to abstract information alone evinces a misunderstanding of the artifacts in our care and an inadequate theory on which to base preservation decisions. |
| title | The Importance of Preserving Paper-Based Artifacts in a Digital Age |
| topic | Library Materials Microforms Academic Libraries Library Services Electronic Libraries Preservation Library Administration Printed Materials |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ875983 |