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From: Roots Webmaster <>
Subject: Re: paper vs bits and bytes
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:38:44 GMT
References: <00d801c1aa16$0123a440$5872fea9@ron>, <3c593df0@news.alphalink.com.au>, <B880D91F.14934%talthane@hotmail.com>
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Grail wrote:
> Nor does the average person have access to a microfiche reader at home, but
> libraries consider them a good storage medium (albeit rather superceded by
> CD-ROM).
This librarian doesn't know of a single librarian that considers microfilm
superseded by CD-ROM. After all, we have hundreds of years of newspapers
that exist only on film and are years away from being digitized.
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