{"id":224,"date":"2013-04-27T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.prattsils.org\/?p=224"},"modified":"2013-04-27T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T02:05:00","slug":"preservation-in-libraries-the-intrinsic-value-of-primary-records-vs-deciding-what-not-to-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2013\/preservation-in-libraries-the-intrinsic-value-of-primary-records-vs-deciding-what-not-to-preserve","title":{"rendered":"Preservation in Libraries: The Intrinsic Value of Primary Records vs. Deciding What Not to Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poet John Milton famously said that books are the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, but with our current girth of information, how will we preserve this knowledge in the long term? While technology has made digitization of books possible, the conversion to digital surrogates does not resolve the controversial question of where and how we should preserve our vast collections of original source materials. We may strive to keep every book, document and artifact in a library\u00a0but financial and physical constraints often make such a goal impossible.\u00a0The question we have before us today is not only \u201cWhat do we select to preserve?\u201d but more importantly, \u201cWhat do we select not to preserve, and how do we make these decisions?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While technology has made digitization of books possible, the conversion to digital surrogates does not resolve the controversial question of where and how we should preserve our vast collections of original source materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,85],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-libraries","tag-preservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}