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Archive: October 2012 (2 Posts)

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If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

On October 17, I had the extreme pleasure of hearing Cory Doctorow at the Library for talk entitled “A Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and Beyond.”  Not surprisingly, the room was packed with attentive listeners. The talk covered a wide range of topics–his love of books as physical objects and his background working in libraries and …

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A Storage Technology Cage Match

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

The Library of Congress hosts a small annual meeting on preservation storage that brings vendors and the preservation community together to share points of view.  The 2012 Designing Storage Architectures meeting was held on September 20-21, and as usual it was enlightening–and exciting. Two forms of large-scale storage have the largest amount of market share:  …