... Digital libraries Digital storage Consortia Library consortia Centralized acquisitions It is common knowledge that in the past ten years libraries have become, to a greater or lesser extent, electronic resource centers. In many cases, the conversion of analog collections to digital collections...

... or other hardware for reading digital storage media, the digital storage media, the file formats data are stored in, the manner in which the data are encoded, the applications software and the operating systems as well. All are subject to a relatively short trip to uselessness. Further irony...

... are welcome and can be sent to maxymuk@camden.rutgers.edu. Internet Digital storage Librarians Collections management At the end of the nineteenth century, 400,000 papyrus fragments were discovered in historic garbage dumps outside of the central Egyptian town of Oxyrhychus. The papyrus documents...