Government Computer News (GCN) DVD

This article says that “DVD is the next step in preserving the governmentÕs digital data.” It
quotes Judy Russell, the Superintendent of Documents, as saying that
less than 5 percent of the FDLPÕs
acquisitions were in electronic format
in 1996, but that this year, 60 percent of the acquisitions will be available through the GPO Access Web site or links to agency databases.
She repeats what GPO has been saying explicitly lately: “That shifts the responsibility for document preservation in perpetuity from the depository libraries to GPO.Ò

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