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100			_aTalbot, David,
245		4	_aThe Fading Memory of the State. _cDavid Talbot.
260			_bTechnology Review, _c2005.
440			_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2006. _nArticle 76, _pScience, _x1522-3264;
500			_aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.
500			_aOriginally Published: The Fading Memory of the State, July 2005; pp. 44-49.
520			_a"The official repository of retired U.S. government records is a boxy white building tucked into the woods of suburban College Park, MD. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is a subdued place, with researchers quietly thumbing through boxes of old census, diplomatic, or military records, and occasionally requesting a copy of one of the computer tapes that fill racks on the climate-controlled upper floors. Researchers generally don't come here to look for contemporary records, though. Those are increasingly digital, and still repose largely at the agencies that created them, or in temporary holding centers. It will take years, or decades, for them to reach NARA, which is charged with saving the retired records of the federal government....Unfortunately, NARA doesn't have decades to come up with ways to preserve this data. Electronic records rot much faster than paper ones, and NARA must either figure out how to save them permanently, or allow the nation to lose its grip on history." (TECHNOLOGY REVIEW) This article discusses the problem faced by archivists at the National Archives in trying to preserve today's increasing numbers of electronic records.
599			_aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
650			_aArchives
650			_aDigital technology
650			_aElectronic records
650			_aGovernment publications
650			_aInternet
650			_aMetadata
610			_aU.S. _bNational Archives and Records Adm.
710			_aProQuest Information and Learning Company _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2006, _pScience. _x1522-3264;
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