Northeast Document Conservation Center.(Brief Article)

Micrographics and Hybrid Imaging Systems Newsletter, January, 1999

The Northeast Document Conservation Center recently conducted a two-day workshop on preservation microfilming at the National Archives of Cuba......Margaret Hedstrom, a professor in the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan, is another member of the archival community warning against leaping before looking into digital storage.

In Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries, she cautions, "digital recording media are vulnerable to deterioration and even under ideal conditions" are "short lived relative to traditional format materials.