Electronic Currents

Electronic Currents

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Abstract

With the advent of the World Wide Web and the popularization of the potential of online access to records and information, the general perception of many patrons is, more and more, that not just aids or collection descriptions but collections themselves should be available in a digital format. People see The Net, hear of the bridge to the 21st century or read the latest visionary prescription of our paperless future and then imagine all sorts of wonderful things. At the Indiana State Archives, I normally told these dreamers that they had us confused with the CIA or the phone company; converting, in our case, 30,000 cubic feet of paper to a digital format was just not to be. (Since accepting the responsibility of writing this, I have moved to the Minnesota Historical Society, where I am as yet too unsure of my status to risk either sarcasm or blanket pronouncements).

How to Cite:

Horton, R., (1997) “Electronic Currents”, MAC Newsletter 24(4), 14,16.