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CLIR Issues Number 38
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"Number 38
March/April 2004
Contents
Access in the Future Tense by Abby Smith
Rethinking Liberal Arts Education: The North Star Project by Rick Detweiler
Frye Institute Participants Named
Collaborative Project to Enhance Library Catalog Browsing by Robert Kieft
Report Profiles Smart Cape Project
2004 Mellon Dissertation Fellows Named
2004 Rovelstad Scholar Named
Access in the Future Tense by Abby Smith
IMAGINE THAT THE year is 2104. You have just walked into—or logged on to—your library for research material. You're looking for an electronic copy of a journal published on the Web by a small learned society in 2005. You soon find out that the journal ceased publication in 2017, the library deaccessioned its print copies more than 80 years ago, and the digital back files were never transferred to a third-party repository. The Internet Archive has no record of the journal because it was available by subscription only. Next, you search for a news broadcast from 2001 on your topic of interest. You find that it is inaccessible; the video had degraded and the library did not have a video preservation program until many years later. Resigned, you search the catalog for a book on your subject. You identify a reference to a book that was published in 1942. The volume is retrieved from storage but it is badly embrittled. Pages are missing. The copy, which had last been consulted in 1956, is no longer fit for use. You are advised to seek it in microform, but are unable to find an index of microform holdings in the United States dating back that far. It also appears that this book was never digitized because of copyright reasons.
This scenario evokes the foreboding of Dickens's Ghost of Christmas Future. Yet it would not be far-fetched if our imagined scholar of the next century were working in an environment where the preservation infrastructure had evolved little from"
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