We have the inutes of the Library Board of Trustees back to the 1910s, and other documents even earlier. These must be preserved permanently, so I'm having ALL of them, even the most recent, collected and bound.

Not burned to CD like the city is doing, but bound. Paper pages.

This is because you can read the stuff in ten years (or less, given the pace of change).

On the other hand, yesterday I ordered another on-line reference service, an annual. And I think that electronic ink and other such innovations are, for certain purposes, absolutely terrific solutions.

Just as a Hummer has a place in civilian life (lumbering for example), every format has a place. We just can't make the mistake of assuming that change has stopped.

(Sure, go ahead and quote me. See if I care. Remember that it's worth what you paid for it.)